Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France, How Huon Returned, His Errand Fulfilled, sentence 26
Then he led the Frenchmen to prison, beating them as he went, but none of them durst say one word.
Who acts: sir, none · What happens: lead, beat, go, say · To what, where: Frenchmen, prison, one word · 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 (sir, none), 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 | 3 led | advmod |
| 2 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 led | nsubj |
| 3 | led | lead | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 Frenchmen | det |
| 5 | Frenchmen | Frenchman | PROPN | Number=Plur | 3 led | obj |
| 6 | to | to | ADP | _ | 7 prison | case |
| 7 | prison | prison | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 led | obl |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 beating | punct |
| 9 | beating | beat | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 3 led | advcl |
| 10 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 beating | obj |
| 11 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 13 went | mark |
| 12 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 13 went | nsubj |
| 13 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 beating | advcl |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 say | punct |
| 15 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 20 say | cc |
| 16 | none | none | PRON | PronType=Neg | 20 say | nsubj |
| 17 | of | of | ADP | _ | 18 them | case |
| 18 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 16 none | nmod |
| 19 | durst | durst | ADV | _ | 20 say | advmod |
| 20 | say | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 led | parataxis |
| 21 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 22 word | nummod |
| 22 | word | word | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 say | obj |
| 23 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 led | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | lead | past | sir | the Frenchmen | prison | then | vn accompany-51.7 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent frenchman=Theme to prison=Destination | ||
| 2 | beat | gerund | sir not said here | Frenchmen = frenchman | vn sound_emission-43.2 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location they=Theme | ||||
| 3 | go | past | sir | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 4 | say speech: assert | present | none of Frenchmen | one word | durst property | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent word=Topic |
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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