Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France, How Huon, Having Slain a Giant, Came to Babylon, sentence 27
I am daughter," she answered, "to Guynemer, that was Earl of St. Omer, and married to a sister of Duke Sevyn of Bordeaux." "
Who acts: I, lady, that · What happens: be, answer, marry · To what, where: daughter, Earl · 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 (I, lady, that), 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 | 3 daughter | nsubj |
| 2 | am | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 daughter | cop |
| 3 | daughter | daughter | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 answered | punct |
| 5 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 7 answered | punct |
| 6 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 answered | nsubj |
| 7 | answered | answer | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 daughter | parataxis |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 Guynemer | punct |
| 9 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 11 Guynemer | punct |
| 10 | to | to | ADP | _ | 11 Guynemer | case |
| 11 | Guynemer | Guynemer | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 answered | parataxis |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 Earl | punct |
| 13 | that | that | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 15 Earl | nsubj |
| 14 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 15 Earl | cop |
| 15 | Earl | Earl | PROPN | Number=Sing | 11 Guynemer | appos |
| 16 | of | of | ADP | _ | 18 Omer | case |
| 17 | St. | St. | PROPN | Number=Sing | 18 Omer | nmod:desc |
| 18 | Omer | Omer | PROPN | Number=Sing | 15 Earl | nmod |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 married | punct |
| 20 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 21 married | cc |
| 21 | married | marry | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 11 Guynemer | parataxis |
| 22 | to | to | ADP | _ | 24 sister | case |
| 23 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 24 sister | det |
| 24 | sister | sister | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 married | obl |
| 25 | of | of | ADP | _ | 27 Sevyn | case |
| 26 | Duke | Duke | PROPN | Number=Sing | 27 Sevyn | compound |
| 27 | Sevyn | Sevyn | PROPN | Number=Sing | 24 sister | nmod |
| 28 | of | of | ADP | _ | 29 Bordeaux | case |
| 29 | Bordeaux | Bordeaux | PROPN | Number=Sing | 27 Sevyn | nmod |
| 30 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 21 married | punct |
| 31 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 11 Guynemer | punct |
| 32 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 3 daughter | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | present | I | daughter | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | answer speech: assert in a quote | past | lady | Guynemer parataxis | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | is a | past | that | Earl | of Omer St. | tree rules | |||
| 4 | marry | participle | to a sister of Duke Sevyn of Bordeaux | vn amalgamate-22.2-3-1-1 «NP V NP PP.co-patient»: agent=Agent to sister=Co-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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