Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France, How Huon Returned, His Errand Fulfilled, sentence 45
The purpose of his coming was to demand from the Admiral the tribute that had been paid by custom to his brother.
Who acts: Huon, purpose, custom · What happens: come, be, pay · To what, where: purpose, Admiral, tribute
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 (Huon, purpose, custom), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 purpose | det |
| 2 | purpose | purpose | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 demand | nsubj |
| 3 | of | of | SCONJ | _ | 5 coming | mark |
| 4 | his | his | PRON | Gender=Masc Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 5 coming | nsubj |
| 5 | coming | come | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 2 purpose | acl |
| 6 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 demand | cop |
| 7 | to | to | PART | _ | 8 demand | mark |
| 8 | demand | demand | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 9 | from | from | ADP | _ | 11 Admiral | case |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 Admiral | det |
| 11 | Admiral | Admiral | PROPN | Number=Sing | 8 demand | obl |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 tribute | det |
| 13 | tribute | tribute | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 demand | obj |
| 14 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 17 paid | nsubj:pass |
| 15 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 17 paid | aux |
| 16 | been | be | AUX | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 17 paid | aux:pass |
| 17 | paid | pay | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 13 tribute | acl:relcl |
| 18 | by | by | ADP | _ | 19 custom | case |
| 19 | custom | custom | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 paid | obl |
| 20 | to | to | ADP | _ | 22 brother | case |
| 21 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 22 brother | nmod:poss |
| 22 | brother | brother | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 paid | obl |
| 23 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 demand | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | come | gerund | Huon | the purpose not said here | vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location purpose=Theme | ||||
| 2 | is | past | the purpose | the Admiral | the tribute obj; demand property | tree rules | |||
| 3 | pay | past · perfect · passive | custom | the tribute | to Huon's brother | vn pay-68-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent subject=Asset |
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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