Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France, How Huon, Having Slain a Giant, Came to Babylon, sentence 62
He marvelled to see them, for they were strange of aspect to him; and they also marvelled at him, for the fashion of his armour was not the fashion of their country.
Who acts: Huon, woods, fashion · What happens: marvell, see, be, not be · To what, where: woods, fashion
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, woods, fashion), 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 | He | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 marvelled | nsubj |
| 2 | marvelled | marvell | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | to | to | PART | _ | 4 see | mark |
| 4 | see | see | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 2 marvelled | xcomp |
| 5 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 see | obj |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 strange | punct |
| 7 | for | for | SCONJ | _ | 10 strange | mark |
| 8 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 10 strange | nsubj |
| 9 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 10 strange | cop |
| 10 | strange | strange | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 see | parataxis |
| 11 | of | of | ADP | _ | 12 aspect | case |
| 12 | aspect | aspect | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 strange | obl |
| 13 | to | to | ADP | _ | 14 him | case |
| 14 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 12 aspect | nmod |
| 15 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 19 marvelled | punct |
| 16 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 19 marvelled | cc |
| 17 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 19 marvelled | nsubj |
| 18 | also | also | ADV | _ | 19 marvelled | advmod |
| 19 | marvelled | marvell | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 marvelled | conj |
| 20 | at | at | ADP | _ | 21 him | case |
| 21 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 19 marvelled | obl |
| 22 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 25 fashion | punct |
| 23 | for | for | ADP | _ | 25 fashion | case |
| 24 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 25 fashion | det |
| 25 | fashion | fashion | NOUN | Number=Sing | 32 fashion | nsubj |
| 26 | of | of | ADP | _ | 28 armour | case |
| 27 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 28 armour | nmod:poss |
| 28 | armour | armour | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 fashion | nmod |
| 29 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 32 fashion | cop |
| 30 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 32 fashion | advmod |
| 31 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 32 fashion | det |
| 32 | fashion | fashion | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 marvelled | ccomp |
| 33 | of | of | ADP | _ | 35 country | case |
| 34 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 35 country | nmod:poss |
| 35 | country | country | NOUN | Number=Sing | 32 fashion | nmod |
| 36 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 marvelled | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | marvell | past | Huon | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | see | to-infinitive | Huon not said here | woods = wood | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer they=Stimulus | ||||
| 3 | is | past | woods = wood | of aspect to Huon; strange property | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | marvell | past | woods = wood | at Huon | tree rules | ||||
| 5 | not is a | past | the fashion of Huon's armour | the fashion | of woods's country | 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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