Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France, How Huon, Having Slain a Giant, Came to Babylon, sentence 13

I judge him to be of France, for I see on his shoulder three crosses, gules; 'twere a pity that he should come to harm; yet what could fifty knights do against this giant?

Who acts: I, Huon, fifty knights · What happens: judge, be, see, come, harm, do · To what, where: Huon, three crosses, shoulder, pity

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 (I, Huon, fifty knights), 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	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	2 judge	nsubj
2	judge	judge	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 judge	obj
4	to	to	PART	_	7 France	mark
5	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	7 France	cop
6	of	of	ADP	_	7 France	case
7	France	France	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 judge	obl
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 see	punct
9	for	for	SCONJ	_	11 see	mark
10	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	11 see	nsubj
11	see	see	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	2 judge	conj
12	on	on	ADP	_	14 shoulder	case
13	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	14 shoulder	nmod:poss
14	shoulder	shoulder	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 see	obl
15	three	three	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	16 crosses	nummod
16	crosses	cross	NOUN	Number=Plur	11 see	obl
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 gules	punct
18	gules	gule	NOUN	Number=Plur	16 crosses	conj
19	;	;	PUNCT	_	23 pity	punct
20	'	'	PUNCT	_	23 pity	punct
21	twere	twere	ADV	_	23 pity	advmod
22	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	23 pity	det
23	pity	pity	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 judge	parataxis
24	that	that	SCONJ	_	27 come	mark
25	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	27 come	nsubj
26	should	should	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	27 come	aux
27	come	come	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	23 pity	acl
28	to	to	PART	_	29 harm	mark
29	harm	harm	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	27 come	xcomp
30	;	;	PUNCT	_	36 do	punct
31	yet	yet	CCONJ	_	36 do	cc
32	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	36 do	obj
33	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	34 fifty	aux
34	fifty	fifty	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	35 knights	nummod
35	knights	knight	NOUN	Number=Plur	36 do	nsubj
36	do	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	2 judge	conj
37	against	against	ADP	_	39 giant	case
38	this	this	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	39 giant	det
39	giant	giant	NOUN	Number=Sing	36 do	obl
40	?	?	PUNCT	_	2 judge	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	judge	present	I	Huon		a pity parataxis	vn estimate-34.2-1-1 «NP V NP.value»: agent=Agent he=Value
2	is	to-infinitive				of France	tree rules
3	see	present	I	three crosses and gules	Huon's shoulder		vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer
4	come	should	Huon	a pity not said here			tree rules
5	harm	to-infinitive	Huon not said here				vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer
6	do	present	fifty knights			against this giant; what obj	vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent what=Eventuality

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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🌲 Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France, How Huon, Having Slain a Giant, Came to Babylon, sentence 13

The tree

Pragmatics

Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France, How Huon, Having Slain a Giant, Came to Babylon, sentence 13