Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France, How Huon Returned, His Errand Fulfilled, sentence 119
Not long after that Huon had been restored to his Duchy of Bordeaux, the Emperor Charlemagne died, having been seized by a fever, which, as being now old and worn out by many labours both in war and peace, he was unable to resist.
Who acts: Emperor Charlemagne, fever, Huon · What happens: restore, die, seize, be, wear out, resist · To what, where: Huon, Duchy, war
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 (Emperor Charlemagne, fever, 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 | Not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 2 long | advmod |
| 2 | long | long | ADV | Degree=Pos | 18 died | advmod |
| 3 | after | after | SCONJ | _ | 8 restored | mark |
| 4 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 8 restored | mark |
| 5 | Huon | Huon | PROPN | Number=Sing | 8 restored | nsubj |
| 6 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 restored | aux |
| 7 | been | be | AUX | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 8 restored | aux:pass |
| 8 | restored | restore | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 2 long | advcl |
| 9 | to | to | ADP | _ | 11 Duchy | case |
| 10 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 11 Duchy | nmod:poss |
| 11 | Duchy | Duchy | PROPN | Number=Sing | 8 restored | obl |
| 12 | of | of | ADP | _ | 13 Bordeaux | case |
| 13 | Bordeaux | Bordeaux | PROPN | Number=Sing | 11 Duchy | nmod |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 long | punct |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 Charlemagne | det |
| 16 | Emperor | Emperor | PROPN | Number=Sing | 17 Charlemagne | compound |
| 17 | Charlemagne | Charlemagne | PROPN | Number=Sing | 18 died | nsubj |
| 18 | died | die | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 seized | punct |
| 20 | having | have | AUX | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 22 seized | aux |
| 21 | been | be | AUX | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 22 seized | aux:pass |
| 22 | seized | seize | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 18 died | conj |
| 23 | by | by | ADP | _ | 25 fever | case |
| 24 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 25 fever | det |
| 25 | fever | fever | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 seized | obl |
| 26 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 32 old | punct |
| 27 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 32 old | nsubj |
| 28 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 32 old | punct |
| 29 | as | as | ADP | _ | 32 old | case |
| 30 | being | be | AUX | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 32 old | cop |
| 31 | now | now | ADV | PronType=Dem | 32 old | advmod |
| 32 | old | old | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 25 fever | amod |
| 33 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 34 worn | cc |
| 34 | worn | wear | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 32 old | conj |
| 35 | out | out | ADP | _ | 34 worn | compound:prt |
| 36 | by | by | ADP | _ | 38 labours | case |
| 37 | many | many | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 38 labours | amod |
| 38 | labours | labour | NOUN | Number=Plur | 34 worn | obl |
| 39 | both | both | ADV | _ | 41 war | advmod |
| 40 | in | in | ADP | _ | 41 war | case |
| 41 | war | war | NOUN | Number=Sing | 34 worn | obl |
| 42 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 43 peace | cc |
| 43 | peace | peace | NOUN | Number=Sing | 41 war | conj |
| 44 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 47 unable | punct |
| 45 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 47 unable | nsubj |
| 46 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 47 unable | cop |
| 47 | unable | unable | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 18 died | advcl |
| 48 | to | to | PART | _ | 49 resist | mark |
| 49 | resist | resist | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 47 unable | xcomp |
| 50 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 18 died | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | restore | past · perfect · passive | Huon | Huon's Duchy of Bordeaux | vn contribute-13.2 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: subject=Theme to duchy=Recipient | ||||
| 2 | die | past | the Emperor Charlemagne | long property | vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute | ||||
| 3 | seize | gerund · perfect · passive | a fever | vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 4 | is | gerund | a fever | now | old property | tree rules | |||
| 5 | wear out | participle | a fever not said here | war and peace | by many labours | vn wipe_manner-10.4.1-1 «NP V PP-Conative»: agent=Agent | |||
| 6 | is | past | Huon | unable property | tree rules | ||||
| 7 | resist | to-infinitive | Huon not said here | 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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