Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France, How Huon, Having Slain a Giant, Came to Babylon, sentence 115
This maiden, beholding Huon, and seeing how fair a knight he was, and how boldly he bare himself both in the fight and when he was brought before her father, conceived for him in her heart no small love.
Who acts: Huon · What happens: behold, see, bare, bring, conceive · To what, where: Huon, fair knight, father, heart
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 (Huon), 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 | This | this | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 2 maiden | nsubj |
| 2 | maiden | maiden | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 beholding | punct |
| 4 | beholding | behold | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 2 maiden | advcl |
| 5 | Huon | Huon | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 beholding | obj |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 seeing | punct |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 8 seeing | cc |
| 8 | seeing | see | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 4 beholding | conj |
| 9 | how | how | ADV | PronType=Int | 10 fair | advmod |
| 10 | fair | fair | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 knight | amod |
| 11 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 12 knight | det |
| 12 | knight | knight | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 seeing | obj |
| 13 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 14 was | nsubj |
| 14 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 12 knight | acl:relcl |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 bare | punct |
| 16 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 20 bare | cc |
| 17 | how | how | ADV | PronType=Int | 18 boldly | advmod |
| 18 | boldly | boldly | ADV | Degree=Pos | 20 bare | advmod |
| 19 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 20 bare | nsubj |
| 20 | bare | bare | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 maiden | parataxis |
| 21 | himself | himself | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 20 bare | obj |
| 22 | both | both | ADV | _ | 20 bare | advmod |
| 23 | in | in | ADP | _ | 25 fight | case |
| 24 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 25 fight | det |
| 25 | fight | fight | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 bare | obl |
| 26 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 30 brought | cc |
| 27 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 30 brought | advmod |
| 28 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 30 brought | nsubj |
| 29 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 30 brought | aux:pass |
| 30 | brought | bring | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 20 bare | conj |
| 31 | before | before | ADP | _ | 33 father | case |
| 32 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 33 father | nmod:poss |
| 33 | father | father | NOUN | Number=Sing | 30 brought | obl |
| 34 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 35 conceived | punct |
| 35 | conceived | conceive | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 33 father | acl |
| 36 | for | for | ADP | _ | 37 him | case |
| 37 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 35 conceived | obl |
| 38 | in | in | ADP | _ | 40 heart | case |
| 39 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 40 heart | nmod:poss |
| 40 | heart | heart | NOUN | Number=Sing | 35 conceived | obl |
| 41 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 43 love | det |
| 42 | small | small | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 43 love | amod |
| 43 | love | love | NOUN | Number=Sing | 40 heart | nmod |
| 44 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 maiden | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | behold | gerund | Huon | vn sight-30.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer huon=Stimulus | |||||
| 2 | see | gerund | a fair knight | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer knight=Stimulus | |||||
| 3 | bare | past | Huon | Huon | in the fight; boldly, both property | vn crane-40.3.2 «NP V NP PP.recipient PP.theme»: agent=Agent himself=Patient in fight=Topic | |||
| 4 | bring | past · passive | Huon | before Esclairmonde's father | vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: subject=Theme before father=Destination | ||||
| 5 | conceive | participle | Esclairmonde's father not said here | Esclairmonde's heart no small love | for Huon | vn characterize-29.2-1 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent |
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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