Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France, How Huon, Having Slain a Giant, Came to Babylon, sentence 68
Then Huon straightway remembered the ring, and said to himself, "I have sinned in lying to this fellow, and this to no purpose, having the ring."
Who acts: Huon straightway, I · What happens: remember, say, sin, lie, have · To what, where: ring, straightway · 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 straightway, I), 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 | Then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 4 remembered | advmod |
| 2 | Huon | Huon | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 straightway | compound |
| 3 | straightway | straightway | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 remembered | nsubj |
| 4 | remembered | remember | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 ring | det |
| 6 | ring | ring | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 remembered | obj |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 said | punct |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 9 said | cc |
| 9 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 remembered | parataxis |
| 10 | to | to | ADP | _ | 11 himself | case |
| 11 | himself | himself | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 9 said | obl |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 sinned | punct |
| 13 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 16 sinned | punct |
| 14 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 16 sinned | nsubj |
| 15 | have | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 16 sinned | aux |
| 16 | sinned | sin | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 9 said | ccomp |
| 17 | in | in | SCONJ | _ | 18 lying | mark |
| 18 | lying | lie | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 16 sinned | advcl |
| 19 | to | to | ADP | _ | 21 fellow | case |
| 20 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 21 fellow | det |
| 21 | fellow | fellow | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 lying | obl |
| 22 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 24 this | punct |
| 23 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 24 this | cc |
| 24 | this | this | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 4 remembered | obl |
| 25 | to | to | ADP | _ | 27 purpose | case |
| 26 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 27 purpose | det |
| 27 | purpose | purpose | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 remembered | obl |
| 28 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 29 having | punct |
| 29 | having | have | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 4 remembered | parataxis |
| 30 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 31 ring | det |
| 31 | ring | ring | NOUN | Number=Sing | 29 having | obj |
| 32 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 29 having | punct |
| 33 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 29 having | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | remember | past | Huon straightway | the ring | then | to no purpose; this obl | vn characterize-29.2-1-1 «NP V NP to be ADJ»: agent=Agent ring=Theme to purpose=be' clause=Attribute | ||
| 2 | say speech: assert | past | straightway | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V PP.recipient S-Quote»: agent=Agent to himself=Recipient clause=Topic | |||||
| 3 | sin in a quote | present · perfect | I | vn rebel-71.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 4 | lie in a quote | gerund | I not said here | to this fellow | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 5 | have in a quote | gerund | the ring | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent ring=Patient |
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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