Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France, How Huon, Having Slain a Giant, Came to Babylon, sentence 36
The giant answered, "Not a hundred such as you would prevail over me were I armed; even now I fear you not." "
Who acts: giant, you, hundred · What happens: answer, prevail, be, not fear · To what, where: you · 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 (giant, you, hundred), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 giant | det |
| 2 | giant | giant | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 answered | nsubj |
| 3 | answered | answer | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 armed | punct |
| 5 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 18 armed | punct |
| 6 | Not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 8 hundred | advmod |
| 7 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 8 hundred | det |
| 8 | hundred | hundred | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 18 armed | nsubj |
| 9 | such | such | ADJ | Degree=Pos ExtPos=SCONJ | 13 prevail | mark |
| 10 | as | as | ADP | _ | 9 such | fixed |
| 11 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 13 prevail | nsubj |
| 12 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 13 prevail | aux |
| 13 | prevail | prevail | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 8 hundred | acl |
| 14 | over | over | ADP | _ | 15 me | case |
| 15 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 13 prevail | obl |
| 16 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 18 armed | cop |
| 17 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 18 armed | nsubj |
| 18 | armed | armed | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 answered | ccomp |
| 19 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 23 fear | punct |
| 20 | even | even | ADV | _ | 21 now | advmod |
| 21 | now | now | ADV | PronType=Dem | 23 fear | advmod |
| 22 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 23 fear | nsubj |
| 23 | fear | fear | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 answered | parataxis |
| 24 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 23 fear | obj |
| 25 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 23 fear | advmod |
| 26 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 23 fear | punct |
| 27 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 23 fear | punct |
| 28 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 3 answered | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | answer speech: assert | past | the giant | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | prevail in a quote | would | you | over the giant = giant | vn exist-47.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme over i=Location | ||||
| 3 | is in a quote | past | a hundred | I nsubj; armed property | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | not fear in a quote | present | the giant = giant | you | now | vn admire-31.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer you=Stimulus |
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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