Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France, How Huon, Having Slain a Giant, Came to Babylon, sentence 4
But if a man could by any means pass into the tower, and overcome the giant, then he would find treasures without end.
Who acts: swallow · What happens: mean, pass, overcome, find · To what, where: tower, giant, treasures · 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 (swallow), 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 | But | but | CCONJ | _ | 8 means | cc |
| 2 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 5 could | mark |
| 3 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 4 man | det |
| 4 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 could | nsubj |
| 5 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 8 means | aux |
| 6 | by | by | ADP | _ | 7 any | case |
| 7 | any | any | DET | PronType=Ind | 5 could | obl |
| 8 | means | mean | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 9 | pass | pass | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 8 means | ccomp |
| 10 | into | into | ADP | _ | 12 tower | case |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 tower | det |
| 12 | tower | tower | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 pass | obl |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 overcome | punct |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 overcome | cc |
| 15 | overcome | overcome | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 9 pass | parataxis |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 giant | det |
| 17 | giant | giant | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 overcome | obj |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 find | punct |
| 19 | then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 22 find | advmod |
| 20 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 22 find | nsubj |
| 21 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 22 find | aux |
| 22 | find | find | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 15 overcome | conj |
| 23 | treasures | treasure | NOUN | Number=Plur | 22 find | obj |
| 24 | without | without | ADP | _ | 25 end | case |
| 25 | end | end | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 find | obl |
| 26 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 means | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | mean | could | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | ||||||
| 2 | pass | infinitive | the tower | vn escape-51.1-1-3 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme into tower=Initial_Location | |||||
| 3 | overcome | infinitive | the giant | vn exceed-90 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot giant=Theme | |||||
| 4 | find | would | swallow | treasures | without end; then | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent treasure=Topic |
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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