Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France, How Huon, Having Slain a Giant, Came to Babylon, sentence 69
After this he came to a second gate, and a porter thereat, who opened to him at the sight of the ring; and after the second, a third, and after the third, a fourth, which he passed in the same way.
Who acts: straightway, porter, fourth · What happens: come, open, pass, sight · To what, where: second gate, straightway, sight, same way, ring
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 (straightway, porter, fourth), 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 | After | after | ADP | _ | 2 this | case |
| 2 | this | this | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 4 came | obl |
| 3 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 came | nsubj |
| 4 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | to | to | ADP | _ | 8 gate | case |
| 6 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 8 gate | det |
| 7 | second | second | ADJ | Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord | 8 gate | amod |
| 8 | gate | gate | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 came | obl |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 porter | punct |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 porter | cc |
| 11 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 12 porter | det |
| 12 | porter | porter | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 came | conj |
| 13 | thereat | thereat | ADV | _ | 12 porter | advmod |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 opened | punct |
| 15 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 16 opened | nsubj |
| 16 | opened | open | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 12 porter | parataxis |
| 17 | to | to | ADP | _ | 18 him | case |
| 18 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 16 opened | obl |
| 19 | at | at | ADP | _ | 21 sight | case |
| 20 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 21 sight | det |
| 21 | sight | sight | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 opened | obl |
| 22 | of | of | ADP | _ | 24 ring | case |
| 23 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 24 ring | det |
| 24 | ring | ring | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 sight | nmod |
| 25 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 32 third | punct |
| 26 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 32 third | cc |
| 27 | after | after | ADP | _ | 32 third | case |
| 28 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 32 third | det |
| 29 | second | second | ADJ | Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord | 32 third | amod |
| 30 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 32 third | punct |
| 31 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 32 third | det |
| 32 | third | third | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 came | obl |
| 33 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 37 third | punct |
| 34 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 37 third | cc |
| 35 | after | after | ADP | _ | 37 third | case |
| 36 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 37 third | det |
| 37 | third | third | ADJ | Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord | 4 came | conj |
| 38 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 37 third | punct |
| 39 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 40 fourth | det |
| 40 | fourth | fourth | NOUN | Number=Sing | 37 third | appos |
| 41 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 44 passed | punct |
| 42 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 44 passed | nsubj |
| 43 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 44 passed | nsubj |
| 44 | passed | pass | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 40 fourth | acl:relcl |
| 45 | in | in | ADP | _ | 48 way | case |
| 46 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 48 way | det |
| 47 | same | same | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 48 way | amod |
| 48 | way | way | NOUN | Number=Sing | 44 passed | obl |
| 49 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 came | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | come | past | straightway | a second gate | after this; after the second third | a porter conj | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to gate=Initial_Location | ||
| 2 | open | past | a porter | straightway | the sight of the ring | vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V NP.theme PP»: agent=Agent at sight=Location | |||
| 3 | pass | past | a fourth | the same way | straightway nsubj | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme in way=Location | |||
| 4 | sight | the ring | nom sight «cognition transitive»: of=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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