Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France, How Huon Returned, His Errand Fulfilled, sentence 117
There did Huon render to Charlemagne the Admiral's sceptre; and the King received him into his royal favour, and gave him back his lands.
Who acts: King, Huon · What happens: do, render, receive, give back, favour · To what, where: Huon, Charlemagne, royal favour, lands
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 (King, Huon), 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 | There | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 2 did | expl |
| 2 | did | do | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | Huon | Huon | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 did | obj |
| 4 | render | render | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 Huon | flat |
| 5 | to | to | ADP | _ | 6 Charlemagne | case |
| 6 | Charlemagne | Charlemagne | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 did | obl |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 Admiral | det |
| 8 | Admiral | Admiral | PROPN | Number=Sing | 10 sceptre | nmod:poss |
| 9 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 8 Admiral | case |
| 10 | sceptre | sceptre | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 did | obl:unmarked |
| 11 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 15 received | punct |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 received | cc |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 King | det |
| 14 | King | King | PROPN | Number=Sing | 15 received | nsubj |
| 15 | received | receive | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 did | parataxis |
| 16 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 15 received | obj |
| 17 | into | into | ADP | _ | 20 favour | case |
| 18 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 20 favour | nmod:poss |
| 19 | royal | royal | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 20 favour | amod |
| 20 | favour | favour | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 received | obl |
| 21 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 23 gave | punct |
| 22 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 23 gave | cc |
| 23 | gave | give | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 did | conj |
| 24 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 23 gave | iobj |
| 25 | back | back | ADV | _ | 23 gave | advmod |
| 26 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 27 lands | nmod:poss |
| 27 | lands | land | NOUN | Number=Plur | 23 gave | obj |
| 28 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 did | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | do | past | Huon | Charlemagne | there | the Admiral's sceptre obl:unmarked | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent huon=Eventuality | ||
| 2 | render | infinitive | vn give-13.1 «NP V PP.recipient»: agent=Agent | ||||||
| 3 | receive | past | the King | Huon | Huon's royal favour | vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Theme | |||
| 4 | give back | past | Huon's lands | Huon | vn give-13.1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent he=Recipient land=Theme | ||||
| 5 | favour | Huon | nom favour «feeling transitive»: poss=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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