Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France, How Huon, Having Slain a Giant, Came to Babylon, sentence 1
After these things it was told Huon that there was a certain tower not far from the city of Tormont, a very marvellous place where there dwelt a giant, Angolafer by name.
Who acts: certain tower · What happens: tell, be, dwell · To what, where: things, Huon, giant Angolafer · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France» by Alfred John Church, How Huon, Having Slain a Giant, Came to Babylon. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (certain tower), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.
Mova's own parse. This tree may be wrong.
The tree
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | After | after | SCONJ | _ | 6 told | mark |
| 2 | these | this | DET | Number=Plur PronType=Dem | 3 things | det |
| 3 | things | thing | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 told | nsubj:pass |
| 4 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 told | nsubj:pass |
| 5 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 told | aux:pass |
| 6 | told | tell | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 7 | Huon | Huon | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 told | iobj |
| 8 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 10 was | mark |
| 9 | there | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 10 was | expl |
| 10 | was | be | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 told | ccomp |
| 11 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 13 tower | det |
| 12 | certain | certain | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 tower | amod |
| 13 | tower | tower | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 was | nsubj |
| 14 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 15 far | advmod |
| 15 | far | far | ADV | Degree=Pos | 18 city | advmod |
| 16 | from | from | ADP | _ | 18 city | case |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 city | det |
| 18 | city | city | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 tower | nmod |
| 19 | of | of | ADP | _ | 20 Tormont | case |
| 20 | Tormont | Tormont | PROPN | Number=Sing | 18 city | nmod |
| 21 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 25 place | punct |
| 22 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 25 place | det |
| 23 | very | very | ADV | _ | 24 marvellous | advmod |
| 24 | marvellous | marvellous | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 25 place | amod |
| 25 | place | place | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 city | conj |
| 26 | where | where | ADV | PronType=Rel | 28 dwelt | advmod |
| 27 | there | there | ADV | PronType=Dem | 28 dwelt | advmod |
| 28 | dwelt | dwell | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 25 place | acl:relcl |
| 29 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 32 Angolafer | det |
| 30 | giant | giant | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 32 Angolafer | amod |
| 31 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 30 giant | punct |
| 32 | Angolafer | Angolafer | PROPN | Number=Sing | 28 dwelt | obj |
| 33 | by | by | ADP | _ | 34 name | case |
| 34 | name | name | NOUN | Number=Sing | 28 dwelt | obl |
| 35 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 told | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | tell speech: assert | past · passive | this things | Huon | it nsubj:pass | tree rules | |||
| 2 | be | past | a certain tower from the city of Tormont and a marvellous place | there | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 3 | dwell | past | a giant Angolafer | there | by name | vn lodge-46 «NP V ADV»: agent=Theme angolafer=Location |
One row per clause the reader finds. «not said here»: a role filled from the clause above. «roles by»: a VerbNet class and frame when one fits the verb, else the reader's rules on the tree.
Text: «Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France» by Alfred John Church, Project Gutenberg book 75339 (public domain in the USA). Tree: Mova's own parse, Elamur Cosmic License. Frames: Mova's frames reader (prag), the chapter read in order.
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