Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France, How Huon, Having Slain a Giant, Came to Babylon, sentence 14
Yet if he is come for some good end, I would fain help him."
Who acts: I · What happens: come, fain, help · To what, where: knight
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), 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 | Yet | yet | CCONJ | _ | 13 fain | cc |
| 2 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 5 come | mark |
| 3 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 come | nsubj |
| 4 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 come | aux:pass |
| 5 | come | come | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 13 fain | advcl |
| 6 | for | for | ADP | _ | 9 end | case |
| 7 | some | some | DET | PronType=Ind | 9 end | det |
| 8 | good | good | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 end | amod |
| 9 | end | end | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 come | obl |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 come | punct |
| 11 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 13 fain | nsubj |
| 12 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 13 fain | aux |
| 13 | fain | fain | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 14 | help | help | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 13 fain | xcomp |
| 15 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 14 help | obj |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 13 fain | punct |
| 17 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 13 fain | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | come a condition, not said to happen | present · passive | knight | for some good end | vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: subject=Theme | ||||
| 2 | fain | would | I | tree rules | |||||
| 3 | help | infinitive | I not said here | knight | vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Beneficiary |
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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