Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France, How Huon, Having Slain a Giant, Came to Babylon, sentence 7
When he saw the men of brass striking with their flails, he wondered much how he might win by them.
Who acts: Huon, brass · What happens: see, strike, wonder, win · To what, where: men · 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, brass), 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 | When | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 3 saw | advmod |
| 2 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 saw | nsubj |
| 3 | saw | see | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 14 wondered | advcl |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 men | det |
| 5 | men | man | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 saw | obj |
| 6 | of | of | ADP | _ | 7 brass | case |
| 7 | brass | brass | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 men | nmod |
| 8 | striking | strike | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 7 brass | acl |
| 9 | with | with | ADP | _ | 11 flails | case |
| 10 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 11 flails | nmod:poss |
| 11 | flails | flail | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 striking | obl |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 saw | punct |
| 13 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 14 wondered | nsubj |
| 14 | wondered | wonder | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 15 | much | much | ADV | _ | 19 win | advmod |
| 16 | how | how | ADV | PronType=Int | 19 win | advmod |
| 17 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 19 win | nsubj |
| 18 | might | might | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 19 win | aux |
| 19 | win | win | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 14 wondered | ccomp |
| 20 | by | by | ADP | _ | 21 them | case |
| 21 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 19 win | obl |
| 22 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 14 wondered | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | see | past | Huon | the men of brass | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer man=Stimulus | ||||
| 2 | strike | gerund | brass not said here | with men's flails | vn sound_emission-43.2 «NP.location V PP.theme»: agent=Location with flail=Theme | ||||
| 3 | wonder speech: ask | past | Huon | vn care-88.1-1 «NP V what S»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus | |||||
| 4 | win | might | Huon | by men = man | vn succeed-74-2 «NP V»: agent=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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