Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France, How Huon Returned, His Errand Fulfilled, sentence 101
He hath lain in my prison for the half of a year, and now, forsooth, he will overrun my city with armed men.
Who acts: Admiral · What happens: lie, overrun · To what, where: Admiral, prison, city
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 (Admiral), 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 | He | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 lain | nsubj |
| 2 | hath | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Style=Arch Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 lain | aux:pass |
| 3 | lain | lie | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 4 | in | in | ADP | _ | 6 prison | case |
| 5 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 6 prison | nmod:poss |
| 6 | prison | prison | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 lain | obl |
| 7 | for | for | ADP | _ | 9 half | case |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 half | det |
| 9 | half | half | NOUN | Number=Sing NumForm=Word NumType=Frac | 3 lain | obl |
| 10 | of | of | ADP | _ | 12 year | case |
| 11 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 12 year | det |
| 12 | year | year | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 half | nmod |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 forsooth | punct |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 17 forsooth | cc |
| 15 | now | now | ADV | PronType=Dem | 17 forsooth | advmod |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 forsooth | punct |
| 17 | forsooth | forsooth | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 lain | conj |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 overrun | punct |
| 19 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 21 overrun | nsubj |
| 20 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 21 overrun | aux |
| 21 | overrun | overrun | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 17 forsooth | conj |
| 22 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 23 city | nmod:poss |
| 23 | city | city | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 overrun | obj |
| 24 | with | with | ADP | _ | 26 men | case |
| 25 | armed | armed | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 26 men | amod |
| 26 | men | man | NOUN | Number=Plur | 21 overrun | obl |
| 27 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 lain | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | lie | present · passive | Admiral | my prison | for the half of a year | tree rules | |||
| 2 | overrun | future | Admiral | my city | with armed men | 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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