Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France, How Huon, Having Slain a Giant, Came to Babylon, sentence 42
This tower I took from Oberon, who is a great Prince in these parts, and with it a suit of armour which no one may wear save he be without guilt.
Who acts: tower, Oberon, one · What happens: take, be, wear, save · To what, where: Oberon, great Prince, suit
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 (tower, Oberon, one), 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 | This | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 2 tower | det |
| 2 | tower | tower | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 took | nsubj |
| 3 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 4 took | nsubj |
| 4 | took | take | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | from | from | ADP | _ | 6 Oberon | case |
| 6 | Oberon | Oberon | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 took | obl |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 Prince | punct |
| 8 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 12 Prince | nsubj |
| 9 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 12 Prince | cop |
| 10 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 12 Prince | det |
| 11 | great | great | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 Prince | amod |
| 12 | Prince | Prince | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 Oberon | appos |
| 13 | in | in | ADP | _ | 15 parts | case |
| 14 | these | this | DET | Number=Plur PronType=Dem | 15 parts | det |
| 15 | parts | part | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 took | obl |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 suit | punct |
| 17 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 21 suit | cc |
| 18 | with | with | ADP | _ | 19 it | case |
| 19 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 21 suit | obl |
| 20 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 21 suit | det |
| 21 | suit | suit | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 took | parataxis |
| 22 | of | of | ADP | _ | 23 armour | case |
| 23 | armour | armour | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 suit | nmod |
| 24 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 28 wear | obj |
| 25 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 26 one | det |
| 26 | one | one | NOUN | Number=Sing | 28 wear | nsubj |
| 27 | may | may | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 28 wear | aux |
| 28 | wear | wear | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 21 suit | parataxis |
| 29 | save | save | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 28 wear | xcomp |
| 30 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 33 guilt | nsubj |
| 31 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 33 guilt | cop |
| 32 | without | without | ADP | _ | 33 guilt | case |
| 33 | guilt | guilt | NOUN | Number=Sing | 29 save | obj |
| 34 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 took | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | take | past | this tower | Oberon | in this parts; I nsubj; a suit with Admiral of armour parataxis | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP PP.initial_location»: agent=Agent from oberon=Initial_Location | |||
| 2 | is a | present | Oberon | a great Prince | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | wear | may | no one | a suit with Admiral of armour | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | save | infinitive | no one not said here | vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 5 | is | infinitive | Oberon | without guilt | 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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