Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France, How Huon, Having Slain a Giant, Came to Babylon, sentence 46
That will not I," answered Huon, "not for twelve of the fairest cities that are between this place and Paris." "
Who acts: Huon, fairest cities · What happens: answer, be · To what, where: Huon
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, fairest cities), 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 | 4 I | nsubj |
| 2 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 4 I | aux |
| 3 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 4 I | advmod |
| 4 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 7 answered | nsubj |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 I | punct |
| 6 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 4 I | punct |
| 7 | answered | answer | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 8 | Huon | Huon | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 answered | obj |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 twelve | punct |
| 10 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 13 twelve | punct |
| 11 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 13 twelve | advmod |
| 12 | for | for | ADP | _ | 13 twelve | case |
| 13 | twelve | twelve | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 7 answered | obl |
| 14 | of | of | ADP | _ | 17 cities | case |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 cities | det |
| 16 | fairest | fair | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 17 cities | amod |
| 17 | cities | city | NOUN | Number=Plur | 13 twelve | nmod |
| 18 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 22 place | nsubj |
| 19 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 22 place | cop |
| 20 | between | between | ADP | _ | 22 place | case |
| 21 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 22 place | det |
| 22 | place | place | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 cities | acl:relcl |
| 23 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 24 Paris | cc |
| 24 | Paris | Paris | PROPN | Number=Sing | 22 place | parataxis |
| 25 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 24 Paris | punct |
| 26 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 24 Paris | punct |
| 27 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 22 place | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | answer speech: assert in a quote | past | Huon | Huon | for twelve of the fairest cities | vn reciprocate-112-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent huon=Eventuality | |||
| 2 | is | present | the fairest cities | between this place; Paris parataxis | 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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