Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France, How Huon, Having Slain a Giant, Came to Babylon, sentence 113
So the Admiral's yeomen took Huon, and cast him into a dungeon that was under the palace.
Who acts: yeomen, dungeon · What happens: take, cast, be · To what, where: Huon, dungeon, palace
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 (yeomen, dungeon), 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 | So | so | ADV | _ | 6 took | advmod |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 Admiral | det |
| 3 | Admiral | Admiral | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 yeomen | nmod:poss |
| 4 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 3 Admiral | case |
| 5 | yeomen | yeoman | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 took | nsubj |
| 6 | took | take | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | Huon | Huon | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 took | obj |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 cast | punct |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 cast | cc |
| 10 | cast | cast | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 6 took | conj |
| 11 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 10 cast | obj |
| 12 | into | into | ADP | _ | 14 dungeon | case |
| 13 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 14 dungeon | det |
| 14 | dungeon | dungeon | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 cast | obl |
| 15 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 19 palace | nsubj |
| 16 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 19 palace | cop |
| 17 | under | under | ADP | _ | 19 palace | case |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 palace | det |
| 19 | palace | palace | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 dungeon | acl:relcl |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 took | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | take | past | the Admiral's yeomen | Huon | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP ADVP»: agent=Instrument huon=Destination | ||||
| 2 | cast | infinitive | the Admiral's yeomen not said here | Huon | a dungeon | vn build-26.1 «NP V NP.material PP.product»: agent=Agent he=Material into dungeon=Product | |||
| 3 | is | past | a dungeon | the palace | tree rules |
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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