Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France, How Huon Returned, His Errand Fulfilled, sentence 1

When Gerames and the Lady Sybil had tarried for three months in the tower, and had heard no tidings of Huon, they were greatly troubled and doubted what they should do.

Who acts: Gerames · What happens: tarry, hear, be, doubt, do · To what, where: tower, tidings

This is a sentence of «Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France» by Alfred John Church, How Huon Returned, His Errand Fulfilled. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Gerames), 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	8 tarried	advmod
2	Gerames	gerame	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 tarried	nsubj
3	and	and	CCONJ	_	6 Sybil	cc
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 Sybil	det
5	Lady	Lady	PROPN	Number=Sing	6 Sybil	compound
6	Sybil	Sybil	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 Gerames	conj
7	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 tarried	aux
8	tarried	tarry	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	root	root
9	for	for	ADP	_	11 months	case
10	three	three	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	11 months	nummod
11	months	month	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 tarried	obl
12	in	in	ADP	_	14 tower	case
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 tower	det
14	tower	tower	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 tarried	obl
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 heard	punct
16	and	and	CCONJ	_	18 heard	cc
17	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	18 heard	aux
18	heard	hear	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	8 tarried	conj
19	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	20 tidings	det
20	tidings	tiding	NOUN	Number=Plur	18 heard	obj
21	of	of	ADP	_	22 Huon	case
22	Huon	Huon	PROPN	Number=Sing	20 tidings	nmod
23	,	,	PUNCT	_	27 troubled	punct
24	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	27 troubled	nsubj
25	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	27 troubled	cop
26	greatly	greatly	ADV	_	27 troubled	advmod
27	troubled	troubled	ADJ	Degree=Pos	18 heard	parataxis
28	and	and	CCONJ	_	29 doubted	cc
29	doubted	doubt	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	27 troubled	conj
30	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	33 do	obj
31	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	33 do	nsubj
32	should	should	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	33 do	aux
33	do	do	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	29 doubted	ccomp
34	.	.	PUNCT	_	8 tarried	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	tarry	past · perfect	Gerames and the Lady Sybil		the tower	month		vn linger-53.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent in tower=Location
2	hear	past · perfect	Gerames and the Lady Sybil not said here	no tidings of Huon				vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer tiding=Stimulus
3	is	past	Gerames = gerame				greatly, troubled property	tree rules
4	doubt	past	Gerames = gerame not said here					vn conjecture-29.5 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme
5	do	should	Gerames = gerame				what obj	vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent what=Eventuality

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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🌲 Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France, How Huon Returned, His Errand Fulfilled, sentence 1

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Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France, How Huon Returned, His Errand Fulfilled, sentence 1