Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France, How Huon, Having Slain a Giant, Came to Babylon, sentence 109
The Admiral answered, "I know not how to thank the man who brought me a message so insolent.
Who acts: Admiral, man · What happens: answer, not know, thank, bring · To what, where: man, message, Admiral · 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 (Admiral, man), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 Admiral | det |
| 2 | Admiral | Admiral | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 answered | nsubj |
| 3 | answered | answer | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 know | punct |
| 5 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 7 know | punct |
| 6 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 7 know | nsubj |
| 7 | know | know | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 answered | ccomp |
| 8 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 7 know | advmod |
| 9 | how | how | ADV | PronType=Int | 11 thank | advmod |
| 10 | to | to | PART | _ | 11 thank | mark |
| 11 | thank | thank | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 7 know | ccomp |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 man | det |
| 13 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 thank | obj |
| 14 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 15 brought | nsubj |
| 15 | brought | bring | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 13 man | acl:relcl |
| 16 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 15 brought | obj |
| 17 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 18 message | det |
| 18 | message | message | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 brought | obj |
| 19 | so | so | SCONJ | _ | 20 insolent | case |
| 20 | insolent | insolent | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 brought | obl |
| 21 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 answered | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | answer speech: assert | past | the Admiral | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | not know in a quote | present | the Admiral = admiral | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V how S_INF»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus | |||||
| 3 | thank speech: thank in a quote | to-infinitive | the man | vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent man=Theme | |||||
| 4 | bring in a quote | past | the man | a message | the Admiral = admiral | so insolent | vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP NP»: agent=Agent i=Destination message=Theme |
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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