Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France, How Huon, Having Slain a Giant, Came to Babylon, sentence 120
She said to Huon, "Fair sir, I am Esclairmonde, and am daughter to the Admiral, and I saw you when you were brought before my father, and also when you fought against his men, and knew you to be a fair knight and a gallant.
Who acts: Esclairmonde, Huon · What happens: say, be, see, bring, fight, know · To what, where: Huon, Esclairmonde, daughter, fair knight · 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 (Esclairmonde, 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 | She | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 said | nsubj |
| 2 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | to | to | ADP | _ | 4 Huon | case |
| 4 | Huon | Huon | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 said | obl |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 sir | punct |
| 6 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 8 sir | punct |
| 7 | Fair | fair | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 sir | amod |
| 8 | sir | sir | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 Huon | appos |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 Esclairmonde | punct |
| 10 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 12 Esclairmonde | nsubj |
| 11 | am | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 12 Esclairmonde | cop |
| 12 | Esclairmonde | Esclairmonde | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 Huon | conj |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 daughter | punct |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 16 daughter | cc |
| 15 | am | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 16 daughter | cop |
| 16 | daughter | daughter | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 Huon | conj |
| 17 | to | to | ADP | _ | 19 Admiral | case |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 Admiral | det |
| 19 | Admiral | admiral | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 daughter | nmod |
| 20 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 23 saw | punct |
| 21 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 23 saw | cc |
| 22 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 23 saw | nsubj |
| 23 | saw | see | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 said | parataxis |
| 24 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 23 saw | obj |
| 25 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 28 brought | advmod |
| 26 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 28 brought | nsubj |
| 27 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 28 brought | aux:pass |
| 28 | brought | bring | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 23 saw | ccomp |
| 29 | before | before | ADP | _ | 31 father | case |
| 30 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 31 father | nmod:poss |
| 31 | father | father | NOUN | Number=Sing | 28 brought | obl |
| 32 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 37 fought | punct |
| 33 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 37 fought | cc |
| 34 | also | also | ADV | _ | 37 fought | advmod |
| 35 | when | when | SCONJ | _ | 37 fought | mark |
| 36 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 37 fought | nsubj |
| 37 | fought | fight | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 said | conj |
| 38 | against | against | ADP | _ | 40 men | case |
| 39 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 40 men | nmod:poss |
| 40 | men | man | NOUN | Number=Plur | 37 fought | obl |
| 41 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 43 knew | punct |
| 42 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 43 knew | cc |
| 43 | knew | know | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 said | parataxis |
| 44 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 43 knew | obj |
| 45 | to | to | PART | _ | 49 knight | mark |
| 46 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 49 knight | cop |
| 47 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 49 knight | det |
| 48 | fair | fair | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 49 knight | amod |
| 49 | knight | knight | NOUN | Number=Sing | 43 knew | ccomp |
| 50 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 52 gallant | cc |
| 51 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 52 gallant | det |
| 52 | gallant | gallant | NOUN | Number=Sing | 49 knight | conj |
| 53 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: assert | past | Esclairmonde | Huon and Esclairmonde and daughter | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V PP.recipient S-Quote»: agent=Agent to huon=Recipient clause=Topic | ||||
| 2 | is a in a quote | present | Esclairmonde | Esclairmonde | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | is a in a quote | present | Esclairmonde not said here | daughter | to the Admiral | tree rules | |||
| 4 | see in a quote | past | Esclairmonde | Huon and Esclairmonde and daughter = huon | tree rules | ||||
| 5 | bring in a quote | past · passive | Huon and Esclairmonde and daughter = huon | before my father | vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: subject=Theme before father=Destination | ||||
| 6 | fight in a quote | past | Huon and Esclairmonde and daughter = huon | against Huon's men | vn battle-36.4-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 7 | know in a quote | past | Huon and Esclairmonde and daughter = huon | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer you=Stimulus | |||||
| 8 | is a in a quote | to-infinitive | a fair knight and a gallant | a gallant conj | 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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