Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France, How Huon, Having Slain a Giant, Came to Babylon, sentence 38
That is bravely and courteously said," quoth the giant. "
What happens: be, quoth · To what, where: That, giant · 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: 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 | That | that | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 6 said | nsubj:pass |
| 2 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 6 said | cop |
| 3 | bravely | bravely | ADV | _ | 6 said | advmod |
| 4 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 6 said | cc |
| 5 | courteously | courteously | ADV | _ | 6 said | advmod |
| 6 | said | say | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 said | punct |
| 8 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 9 quoth | punct |
| 9 | quoth | quoth | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 6 said | ccomp |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 giant | det |
| 11 | giant | giant | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 quoth | obj |
| 12 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 9 quoth | punct |
| 13 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 9 quoth | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | be speech: assert | present · passive | That | bravely, courteously, say property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | quoth in a quote | infinitive | the giant | tree rules |
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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