Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France, How Huon, Having Slain a Giant, Came to Babylon, sentence 33
I should take to myself shame," said he, "if I should fear this villain." "
Who acts: I, Huon, myself · What happens: take, say, fear, shame · To what, where: villain · 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, Huon, myself), 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 take | nsubj |
| 2 | should | should | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 3 take | aux |
| 3 | take | take | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 4 | to | to | ADP | _ | 6 shame | case |
| 5 | myself | myself | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 6 shame | nmod:poss |
| 6 | shame | shame | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 take | obl |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 take | punct |
| 8 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 3 take | punct |
| 9 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 take | parataxis |
| 10 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 said | nsubj |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 said | punct |
| 12 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 16 fear | punct |
| 13 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 16 fear | mark |
| 14 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 16 fear | nsubj |
| 15 | should | should | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 16 fear | aux |
| 16 | fear | fear | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 9 said | parataxis |
| 17 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 18 villain | det |
| 18 | villain | villain | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 fear | obj |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 16 fear | punct |
| 20 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 16 fear | punct |
| 21 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 3 take | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | take | should | I | to myself's shame | vn require-103 «NP V that S»: agent=Theme clause=Precondition | ||||
| 2 | say speech: assert in a quote | past | Huon | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 3 | fear a condition, not said to happen | should | I | this villain | vn admire-31.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer villain=Stimulus | ||||
| 4 | shame | myself | nom shame «feeling transitive»: poss=agent |
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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