Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France, How Huon, Having Slain a Giant, Came to Babylon, sentence 40
Huon answered, "I am a poor knight of France, whom Charlemagne has sent on an errand to the Admiral of Babylon." "
Who acts: Huon, Charlemagne · What happens: answer, be, send · To what, where: poor knight, errand · 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 (Huon, Charlemagne), 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 | Huon | Huon | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 answered | nsubj |
| 2 | answered | answer | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 answered | punct |
| 4 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 9 knight | punct |
| 5 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 9 knight | nsubj |
| 6 | am | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 9 knight | cop |
| 7 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 9 knight | det |
| 8 | poor | poor | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 knight | amod |
| 9 | knight | knight | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 answered | parataxis |
| 10 | of | of | ADP | _ | 11 France | case |
| 11 | France | France | PROPN | Number=Sing | 9 knight | nmod |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 sent | punct |
| 13 | whom | whom | PRON | PronType=Rel | 16 sent | obj |
| 14 | Charlemagne | Charlemagne | PROPN | Number=Sing | 16 sent | nsubj |
| 15 | has | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 16 sent | aux |
| 16 | sent | send | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 9 knight | acl |
| 17 | on | on | ADP | _ | 19 errand | case |
| 18 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 19 errand | det |
| 19 | errand | errand | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 sent | obl |
| 20 | to | to | ADP | _ | 22 Admiral | case |
| 21 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 22 Admiral | det |
| 22 | Admiral | admiral | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 sent | obl |
| 23 | of | of | ADP | _ | 24 Babylon | case |
| 24 | Babylon | Babylon | PROPN | Number=Sing | 22 Admiral | nmod |
| 25 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 16 sent | punct |
| 26 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 9 knight | punct |
| 27 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 9 knight | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | answer speech: assert | past | Huon | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | is a in a quote | present | Huon | a poor knight | of France | tree rules | |||
| 3 | send in a quote | present · perfect | Charlemagne | a poor knight | a errand | to the Admiral of Babylon | vn confine-92-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent whom=Theme to admiral=Destination |
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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