Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France, How Huon, Having Slain a Giant, Came to Babylon, sentence 56
On the morrow, Huon said to his companions, "Tarry you here in the tower with the Lady Sybil, for I will go to Babylon alone.
Who acts: Huon · What happens: say, go · To what, where: companions, morrow, Babylon · 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), 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 | On | on | ADP | _ | 3 morrow | case |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 morrow | det |
| 3 | morrow | morrow | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 said | obl |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 morrow | punct |
| 5 | Huon | Huon | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 said | nsubj |
| 6 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | to | to | ADP | _ | 9 companions | case |
| 8 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 9 companions | nmod:poss |
| 9 | companions | companion | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 said | obl |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 Tarry | punct |
| 11 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 12 Tarry | punct |
| 12 | Tarry | Tarry | PROPN | Number=Sing | 9 companions | nmod |
| 13 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 12 Tarry | appos |
| 14 | here | here | ADV | PronType=Dem | 9 companions | advmod |
| 15 | in | in | ADP | _ | 17 tower | case |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 tower | det |
| 17 | tower | tower | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 said | obl |
| 18 | with | with | ADP | _ | 21 Sybil | case |
| 19 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 21 Sybil | det |
| 20 | Lady | Lady | PROPN | Number=Sing | 21 Sybil | compound |
| 21 | Sybil | Sybil | PROPN | Number=Sing | 17 tower | nmod |
| 22 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 26 go | punct |
| 23 | for | for | SCONJ | _ | 26 go | mark |
| 24 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 26 go | nsubj |
| 25 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 26 go | aux |
| 26 | go | go | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 6 said | ccomp |
| 27 | to | to | ADP | _ | 28 Babylon | case |
| 28 | Babylon | Babylon | PROPN | Number=Sing | 26 go | obl |
| 29 | alone | alone | ADV | _ | 26 go | advmod |
| 30 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: assert | past | Huon | Huon's companions Tarry | the morrow | in the tower with the Lady Sybil | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V PP.recipient S-Quote»: agent=Agent to companion=Recipient clause=Topic | ||
| 2 | go in a quote | future | Huon | Babylon | alone property | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to babylon=Initial_Location |
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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