Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France, How Huon, Having Slain a Giant, Came to Babylon, sentence 49
"I owe you no thanks for the gift," said Huon, "for the ring I can take at my pleasure, when you shall have been slain."
Who acts: Huon, you, my · What happens: owe, say, take, be, please · To what, where: you, pleasure, slain · 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, you, my), 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 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 3 owe | punct |
| 2 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 3 owe | nsubj |
| 3 | owe | owe | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 12 said | ccomp |
| 4 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 3 owe | obj |
| 5 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 6 thanks | det |
| 6 | thanks | thanks | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 owe | obl |
| 7 | for | for | ADP | _ | 9 gift | case |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 gift | det |
| 9 | gift | gift | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 thanks | nmod |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 owe | punct |
| 11 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 3 owe | punct |
| 12 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 13 | Huon | Huon | PROPN | Number=Sing | 12 said | nsubj |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 Huon | punct |
| 15 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 13 Huon | punct |
| 16 | for | for | ADP | _ | 18 ring | case |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 ring | det |
| 18 | ring | ring | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 take | obl |
| 19 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 21 take | nsubj |
| 20 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 21 take | aux |
| 21 | take | take | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 12 said | ccomp |
| 22 | at | at | ADP | _ | 24 pleasure | case |
| 23 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 24 pleasure | nmod:poss |
| 24 | pleasure | pleasure | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 take | obl |
| 25 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 31 slain | punct |
| 26 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 31 slain | advmod |
| 27 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 31 slain | nsubj |
| 28 | shall | shall | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 31 slain | aux |
| 29 | have | have | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 31 slain | aux |
| 30 | been | be | AUX | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 31 slain | cop |
| 31 | slain | slain | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 pleasure | conj |
| 32 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 21 take | punct |
| 33 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 21 take | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | owe in a quote | present | Huon | you | no thanks for the gift obl | vn future_having-13.3 «NP V NP.theme (PP)»: agent=Agent you=Theme | |||
| 2 | say speech: assert | past | Huon | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 3 | take in a quote | can | Huon | my pleasure and slain | for the ring | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP PP.beneficiary»: agent=Agent for ring=Beneficiary | |||
| 4 | is a in a quote | shall · perfect | you | slain | tree rules | ||||
| 5 | please in a quote | my | nom pleasure «feeling transitive»: poss=agent |
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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