Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France, How Huon Returned, His Errand Fulfilled, sentence 114
Then Oberon bade farewell to Huon, saying, "See now that you tell the truth and keep you from sin; so shall you prosper all your days, and come to bliss when your days are ended.
Who acts: Oberon bade farewell, you, days · What happens: say, see, tell, keep, prosper, come · To what, where: truth, you, sin · Speech: someone speaks here
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 (Oberon bade farewell, you, days), 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 | Then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 4 farewell | advmod |
| 2 | Oberon | Oberon | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 farewell | compound |
| 3 | bade | bade | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 farewell | compound |
| 4 | farewell | farewell | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 saying | nsubj |
| 5 | to | to | ADP | _ | 6 Huon | case |
| 6 | Huon | Huon | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 farewell | nmod |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 saying | punct |
| 8 | saying | say | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | root | root |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 See | punct |
| 10 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 11 See | punct |
| 11 | See | see | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 8 saying | ccomp |
| 12 | now | now | ADV | PronType=Dem | 11 See | advmod |
| 13 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 15 tell | mark |
| 14 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 15 tell | nsubj |
| 15 | tell | tell | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 11 See | advcl |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 truth | det |
| 17 | truth | truth | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 tell | obj |
| 18 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 19 keep | cc |
| 19 | keep | keep | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 15 tell | conj |
| 20 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 19 keep | obj |
| 21 | from | from | ADP | _ | 22 sin | case |
| 22 | sin | sin | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 keep | obl |
| 23 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 27 prosper | punct |
| 24 | so | so | ADV | _ | 27 prosper | advmod |
| 25 | shall | shall | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 27 prosper | aux |
| 26 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 27 prosper | nsubj |
| 27 | prosper | prosper | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 8 saying | parataxis |
| 28 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 30 days | det:predet |
| 29 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 30 days | nmod:poss |
| 30 | days | day | NOUN | Number=Plur | 27 prosper | obj |
| 31 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 33 come | punct |
| 32 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 33 come | cc |
| 33 | come | come | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 27 prosper | conj |
| 34 | to | to | PART | _ | 35 bliss | mark |
| 35 | bliss | bliss | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 33 come | xcomp |
| 36 | when | when | SCONJ | _ | 40 ended | mark |
| 37 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 38 days | nmod:poss |
| 38 | days | day | NOUN | Number=Plur | 40 ended | nsubj |
| 39 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 40 ended | cop |
| 40 | ended | ended | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 35 bliss | advcl |
| 41 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 saying | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: assert | gerund | Oberon bade farewell to Huon | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 2 | see in a quote | infinitive | now | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer | |||||
| 3 | tell speech: assert in a quote | present | you | the truth | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent truth=Recipient | ||||
| 4 | keep in a quote | infinitive | you not said here | you | sin | vn forbid-64.4 «NP V NP PP.theme»: agent=Causer you=Beneficiary from sin=Eventuality | |||
| 5 | prosper in a quote | shall | you | day | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 6 | come in a quote | infinitive | you not said here | tree rules | |||||
| 7 | bliss in a quote | to-infinitive | you not said here | tree rules | |||||
| 8 | is in a quote | present | your days | ended 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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