Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France, How Huon, Having Slain a Giant, Came to Babylon, sentence 63
So much was he occupied with the sight, that the giant's ring passed wholly from his mind, from which forgetting there came to him, as will be seen, much trouble.
Who acts: Huon, ring · What happens: be, pass, forget, come, see, mind · To what, where: mind, Huon, much trouble · 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, ring), 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 | So | so | ADV | _ | 2 much | advmod |
| 2 | much | much | ADV | _ | 5 occupied | advmod |
| 3 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 occupied | cop |
| 4 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 occupied | nsubj |
| 5 | occupied | occupied | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 6 | with | with | ADP | _ | 8 sight | case |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 sight | det |
| 8 | sight | sight | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 occupied | obl |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 passed | punct |
| 10 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 15 passed | mark |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 giant | det |
| 12 | giant | giant | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 ring | nmod:poss |
| 13 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 12 giant | case |
| 14 | ring | ring | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 passed | nsubj |
| 15 | passed | pass | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 occupied | parataxis |
| 16 | wholly | wholly | ADV | _ | 15 passed | advmod |
| 17 | from | from | ADP | _ | 19 mind | case |
| 18 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 19 mind | nmod:poss |
| 19 | mind | mind | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 passed | obl |
| 20 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 23 forgetting | punct |
| 21 | from | from | ADP | _ | 23 forgetting | case |
| 22 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 23 forgetting | nsubj |
| 23 | forgetting | forget | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 15 passed | advcl |
| 24 | there | there | ADV | PronType=Dem | 25 came | advmod |
| 25 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 23 forgetting | ccomp |
| 26 | to | to | ADP | _ | 27 him | case |
| 27 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 25 came | obl |
| 28 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 32 seen | punct |
| 29 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 32 seen | mark |
| 30 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 32 seen | aux |
| 31 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 32 seen | aux:pass |
| 32 | seen | see | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 25 came | advcl |
| 33 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 35 trouble | punct |
| 34 | much | much | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 35 trouble | amod |
| 35 | trouble | trouble | NOUN | Number=Sing | 32 seen | obj |
| 36 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 occupied | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | Huon | with the sight; occupied property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | pass | past | the giant's ring | Huon's mind | wholly property | vn escape-51.1-1-3 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme from mind=Initial_Location | |||
| 3 | forget | gerund | which nsubj | tree rules | |||||
| 4 | come | past | Huon | there | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to he=Initial_Location | ||||
| 5 | see | future · passive | much trouble | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: trouble=Stimulus | |||||
| 6 | mind | Huon | nom mind «cognition 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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