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
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 2 persuaded | nsubj |
| 2 | persuaded | persuade | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 4 father | nmod:poss |
| 4 | father | father | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 persuaded | obj |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 reason | punct |
| 6 | for | for | ADP | _ | 8 reason | case |
| 7 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 8 reason | det |
| 8 | reason | reason | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 persuaded | parataxis |
| 9 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 11 had | obj |
| 10 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 11 had | nsubj |
| 11 | had | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 reason | acl:relcl |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 dead | punct |
| 13 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 17 dead | mark |
| 14 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 15 Huon | det |
| 15 | Huon | Huon | PROPN | Number=Sing | 17 dead | nsubj |
| 16 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 17 dead | cop |
| 17 | dead | dead | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 had | conj |
| 18 | of | of | ADP | _ | 19 hunger | case |
| 19 | hunger | hunger | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 dead | obl |
| 20 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 26 alive | punct |
| 21 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 26 alive | cc |
| 22 | in | in | ADP | _ | 23 truth | case |
| 23 | truth | truth | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 alive | obl |
| 24 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 26 alive | nsubj |
| 25 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 26 alive | cop |
| 26 | alive | alive | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 2 persuaded | parataxis |
| 27 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 35 served | punct |
| 28 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 35 served | cc |
| 29 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 28 and | punct |
| 30 | indeed | indeed | ADV | _ | 35 served | advmod |
| 31 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 30 indeed | punct |
| 32 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 35 served | aux:pass |
| 33 | as | as | ADV | ExtPos=CCONJ | 35 served | cc |
| 34 | well | well | ADV | Degree=Pos | 33 as | fixed |
| 35 | served | serve | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 2 persuaded | conj |
| 36 | with | with | ADP | _ | 37 meat | case |
| 37 | meat | meat | NOUN | Number=Sing | 35 served | obl |
| 38 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 39 drink | cc |
| 39 | drink | drink | NOUN | Number=Sing | 37 meat | conj |
| 40 | as | as | ADP | _ | 43 father | case |
| 41 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 43 father | cop |
| 42 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 43 father | nmod:poss |
| 43 | father | father | NOUN | Number=Sing | 35 served | obl |
| 44 | himself | himself | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Emp Reflex=Yes | 43 father | nmod:unmarked |
| 45 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 persuaded | punct |
| 46 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 2 persuaded | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | persuade | past | I | my father | a reason parataxis | vn compel-59.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent father=Patient | |||
| 2 | have | past | I | a reason | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent that=Patient | ||||
| 3 | is | present | this Huon | of hunger; dead property | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | is | present | Huon | truth | alive property | tree rules | |||
| 5 | serve | present · passive | I not said here | with meat and drink; indeed property | vn fulfilling-13.4.1-1 «NP V NP-Fulfilling PP.theme»: with meat=Theme | ||||
| 6 | is | present | as my father; Huon nmod:unmarked; my nmod:poss | 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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