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Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France, How Huon Returned, His Errand Fulfilled, sentence 32

I persuaded my father, for a reason that I had, that this Huon is dead of hunger, but in truth he is alive, and, indeed, is as well served with meat and drink as is my father himself."

Who acts: I, Huon · What happens: persuade, have, be, serve · To what, where: father, reason, truth

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 (I, 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

nsubjnmod:possobjpunctcasedetparataxisobjnsubjacl:relclpunctmarkdetnsubjcopconjcaseoblpunctcccaseoblnsubjcopparataxispunctccpunctadvmodpunctaux:passccfixedconjcaseoblccconjcasecopnmod:possoblnmod:unmarkedpunctpunctrootIPRONpersuadedVERBmyPRONfatherNOUN,PUNCTforADPaDETreasonNOUNthatPRONIPRONhadVERB,PUNCTthatSCONJthisDETHuonPROPNisAUXdeadADJofADPhungerNOUN,PUNCTbutCCONJinADPtruthNOUNhePRONisAUXaliveADJ,PUNCTandCCONJ,PUNCTindeedADV,PUNCTisAUXasADVwellADVservedVERBwithADPmeatNOUNandCCONJdrinkNOUNasADPisAUXmyPRONfatherNOUNhimselfPRON.PUNCT"PUNCT
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
#wordlemmaUPOSfeaturesheadrelation
1IIPRONCase=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs2 persuadednsubj
2persuadedpersuadeVERBMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Finrootroot
3mymyPRONCase=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs4 fathernmod:poss
4fatherfatherNOUNNumber=Sing2 persuadedobj
5,,PUNCT_8 reasonpunct
6forforADP_8 reasoncase
7aaDETDefinite=Ind PronType=Art8 reasondet
8reasonreasonNOUNNumber=Sing2 persuadedparataxis
9thatthatPRONPronType=Rel11 hadobj
10IIPRONCase=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs11 hadnsubj
11hadhaveVERBMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin8 reasonacl:relcl
12,,PUNCT_17 deadpunct
13thatthatSCONJ_17 deadmark
14thisthisDETNumber=Sing PronType=Dem15 Huondet
15HuonHuonPROPNNumber=Sing17 deadnsubj
16isbeAUXMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin17 deadcop
17deaddeadADJDegree=Pos11 hadconj
18ofofADP_19 hungercase
19hungerhungerNOUNNumber=Sing17 deadobl
20,,PUNCT_26 alivepunct
21butbutCCONJ_26 alivecc
22ininADP_23 truthcase
23truthtruthNOUNNumber=Sing26 aliveobl
24hehePRONCase=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs26 alivensubj
25isbeAUXMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin26 alivecop
26alivealiveADJDegree=Pos2 persuadedparataxis
27,,PUNCT_35 servedpunct
28andandCCONJ_35 servedcc
29,,PUNCT_28 andpunct
30indeedindeedADV_35 servedadvmod
31,,PUNCT_30 indeedpunct
32isbeAUXMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin35 servedaux:pass
33asasADVExtPos=CCONJ35 servedcc
34wellwellADVDegree=Pos33 asfixed
35servedserveVERBTense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass2 persuadedconj
36withwithADP_37 meatcase
37meatmeatNOUNNumber=Sing35 servedobl
38andandCCONJ_39 drinkcc
39drinkdrinkNOUNNumber=Sing37 meatconj
40asasADP_43 fathercase
41isbeAUXMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin43 fathercop
42mymyPRONCase=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs43 fathernmod:poss
43fatherfatherNOUNNumber=Sing35 servedobl
44himselfhimselfPRONCase=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Emp Reflex=Yes43 fathernmod:unmarked
45..PUNCT_2 persuadedpunct
46""PUNCT_2 persuadedpunct

Pragmatics

#verbtense, moodwhowhat, whomto whomwherewhenotherroles by
1persuadepastImy fathera reason parataxisvn compel-59.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent father=Patient
2havepastIa reasonvn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent that=Patient
3ispresentthis Huonof hunger; dead propertytree rules
4ispresentHuontruthalive propertytree rules
5servepresent · passiveI not said herewith meat and drink; indeed propertyvn fulfilling-13.4.1-1 «NP V NP-Fulfilling PP.theme»: with meat=Theme
6ispresentas my father; Huon nmod:unmarked; my nmod:posstree 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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