Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France, How Huon, Having Slain a Giant, Came to Babylon, sentence 128
Then she went out from the dungeon, and said to the jailor, "See that this fellow have neither meat nor drink for three days."
Who acts: Esclairmonde, fellow · What happens: go out, say, see, have · To what, where: dungeon, jailor, meat · 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, fellow), 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 | Then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 3 went | advmod |
| 2 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 went | nsubj |
| 3 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | out | out | ADV | _ | 3 went | advmod |
| 5 | from | from | ADP | _ | 7 dungeon | case |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 dungeon | det |
| 7 | dungeon | dungeon | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 went | obl |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 said | punct |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 said | cc |
| 10 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 went | parataxis |
| 11 | to | to | ADP | _ | 13 jailor | case |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 jailor | det |
| 13 | jailor | jailor | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 said | obl |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 See | punct |
| 15 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 16 See | punct |
| 16 | See | see | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 10 said | conj |
| 17 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 20 have | mark |
| 18 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 19 fellow | det |
| 19 | fellow | fellow | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 have | nsubj |
| 20 | have | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 16 See | ccomp |
| 21 | neither | neither | CCONJ | Polarity=Neg | 22 meat | cc:preconj |
| 22 | meat | meat | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 have | obj |
| 23 | nor | nor | CCONJ | Polarity=Neg | 24 drink | cc |
| 24 | drink | drink | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 meat | conj |
| 25 | for | for | ADP | _ | 27 days | case |
| 26 | three | three | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 27 days | nummod |
| 27 | days | day | NOUN | Number=Plur | 20 have | obl |
| 28 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 went | punct |
| 29 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 3 went | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | go out | past | Esclairmonde | the dungeon | then | out property | vn interact-36.6 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||
| 2 | say speech: assert | past | the jailor | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V PP.recipient S-Quote»: agent=Agent to jailor=Recipient | |||||
| 3 | see in a quote | infinitive | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus | ||||||
| 4 | have in a quote | present | this fellow | meat nor drink | day | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent meat=Patient |
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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