Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France, How Huon, Having Slain a Giant, Came to Babylon, sentence 37
Gird on your armour," said Huon, "I would not fight with a naked man." "
Who acts: Gird, I · What happens: say, not fight · 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 (Gird, 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 | Gird | gird | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 said | nsubj |
| 2 | on | on | ADP | _ | 4 armour | case |
| 3 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 4 armour | nmod:poss |
| 4 | armour | armour | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Gird | nmod |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Gird | punct |
| 6 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 1 Gird | punct |
| 7 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 8 | Huon | Huon | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 said | nsubj |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 said | punct |
| 10 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 14 fight | punct |
| 11 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 14 fight | nsubj |
| 12 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 14 fight | aux |
| 13 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 14 fight | advmod |
| 14 | fight | fight | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 7 said | ccomp |
| 15 | with | with | ADP | _ | 18 man | case |
| 16 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 18 man | det |
| 17 | naked | naked | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 18 man | amod |
| 18 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 fight | obl |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 14 fight | punct |
| 20 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 14 fight | punct |
| 21 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 14 fight | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: assert in a quote | past | Gird on your armour | Huon nsubj | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | ||||
| 2 | not fight | would | I | with a naked man | vn battle-36.4-1 «NP V PP.co-agent»: agent=Agent with man=Co-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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