Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France, How Huon Returned, His Errand Fulfilled, sentence 2
And while they doubted, it chanced that certain pagans came in a ship bringing tribute to the giant.
Who acts: Gerames, tower, certain pagans, ship · What happens: doubt, chance, come, bring · To what, where: ship, tribute, giant
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, tower, certain pagans, ship), 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 | And | and | CCONJ | _ | 7 chanced | cc |
| 2 | while | while | SCONJ | _ | 4 doubted | mark |
| 3 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 doubted | nsubj |
| 4 | doubted | doubt | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 chanced | advcl |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 doubted | punct |
| 6 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 chanced | nsubj |
| 7 | chanced | chance | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 8 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 11 came | mark |
| 9 | certain | certain | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 pagans | amod |
| 10 | pagans | pagan | NOUN | Number=Plur | 11 came | nsubj |
| 11 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 chanced | advcl |
| 12 | in | in | ADP | _ | 14 ship | case |
| 13 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 14 ship | det |
| 14 | ship | ship | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 came | obl |
| 15 | bringing | bring | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 14 ship | acl |
| 16 | tribute | tribute | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 bringing | obj |
| 17 | to | to | ADP | _ | 19 giant | case |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 giant | det |
| 19 | giant | giant | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 bringing | obl |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 chanced | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | doubt | past | Gerames = gerame | vn judgment-33.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | chance | past | tower | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 3 | come | past | certain pagans | a ship | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in ship=Location | ||||
| 4 | bring | gerund | a ship not said here | tribute | the giant | vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent tribute=Theme to giant=Destination |
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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