Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France, How Huon, Having Slain a Giant, Came to Babylon, sentence 74
But he said to himself, "There has been a lie upon the lips that blew this horn, for the note is false.
Who acts: King, lips, note · What happens: say, be, blow · To what, where: King, lie, horn · 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 (King, lips, note), 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 | But | but | CCONJ | _ | 3 said | cc |
| 2 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 said | nsubj |
| 3 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | to | to | ADP | _ | 5 himself | case |
| 5 | himself | himself | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 3 said | obl |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 lie | punct |
| 7 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 12 lie | punct |
| 8 | There | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 10 been | expl |
| 9 | has | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 10 been | aux |
| 10 | been | be | AUX | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 12 lie | cop |
| 11 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 12 lie | det |
| 12 | lie | lie | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 said | ccomp |
| 13 | upon | upon | ADP | _ | 15 lips | case |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 lips | det |
| 15 | lips | lip | NOUN | Number=Plur | 12 lie | nmod |
| 16 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 17 blew | nsubj |
| 17 | blew | blow | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 15 lips | acl:relcl |
| 18 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 19 horn | det |
| 19 | horn | horn | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 blew | obj |
| 20 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 25 false | punct |
| 21 | for | for | SCONJ | _ | 25 false | mark |
| 22 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 23 note | det |
| 23 | note | note | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 false | nsubj |
| 24 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 25 false | cop |
| 25 | false | false | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 said | parataxis |
| 26 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: assert | past | King | King | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V PP.recipient S-Quote»: agent=Agent to himself=Recipient clause=Topic | ||||
| 2 | is a in a quote | participle | a lie | upon the lips | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | blow in a quote | past | the lips | this horn | vn split-23.2 «NP V NP apart»: agent=Agent horn=Patient | ||||
| 4 | is in a quote | present | the note | false property | 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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