Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France, How Huon Returned, His Errand Fulfilled, sentence 46
Now the Admiral was sitting at dinner when he came, and the giant came to the table, and said, "You are a false traitor, for you harbour a villain that by some foul means slew my brother Angolafer."
Who acts: Admiral, giant, You, villain · What happens: sit, come, say, be, harbour, mean · To what, where: dinner, table, false traitor, brother · 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 (Admiral, giant, You, villain), 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 | Now | now | ADV | PronType=Dem | 5 sitting | advmod |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 Admiral | det |
| 3 | Admiral | admiral | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 sitting | nsubj |
| 4 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 sitting | aux |
| 5 | sitting | sit | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 10 came | advcl |
| 6 | at | at | ADP | _ | 7 dinner | case |
| 7 | dinner | dinner | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 sitting | obl |
| 8 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 10 came | advmod |
| 9 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 10 came | nsubj |
| 10 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 came | punct |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 came | cc |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 giant | det |
| 14 | giant | giant | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 came | nsubj |
| 15 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 10 came | parataxis |
| 16 | to | to | ADP | _ | 18 table | case |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 table | det |
| 18 | table | table | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 came | obl |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 said | punct |
| 20 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 21 said | cc |
| 21 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 10 came | parataxis |
| 22 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 28 traitor | punct |
| 23 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 28 traitor | punct |
| 24 | You | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 28 traitor | nsubj |
| 25 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 28 traitor | cop |
| 26 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 28 traitor | det |
| 27 | false | false | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 28 traitor | amod |
| 28 | traitor | traitor | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 said | ccomp |
| 29 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 32 harbour | punct |
| 30 | for | for | SCONJ | _ | 32 harbour | mark |
| 31 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 32 harbour | nsubj |
| 32 | harbour | harbour | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 21 said | conj |
| 33 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 34 villain | det |
| 34 | villain | villain | NOUN | Number=Sing | 40 slew | nsubj |
| 35 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 39 means | nsubj |
| 36 | by | by | ADP | _ | 38 foul | case |
| 37 | some | some | DET | PronType=Ind | 38 foul | det |
| 38 | foul | foul | NOUN | Number=Sing | 39 means | obl |
| 39 | means | mean | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 34 villain | acl:relcl |
| 40 | slew | slay | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 32 harbour | ccomp |
| 41 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 42 brother | nmod:poss |
| 42 | brother | brother | NOUN | Number=Sing | 40 slew | obj |
| 43 | Angolafer | Angolafer | PROPN | Number=Sing | 42 brother | appos |
| 44 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 10 came | punct |
| 45 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 10 came | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | sit | past · progressive | the Admiral | dinner | now | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent at dinner=Location | |||
| 2 | come | past | Admiral | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 3 | come | past | the giant | the table | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to table=Initial_Location | ||||
| 4 | say speech: assert | past | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | ||||||
| 5 | is a in a quote | present | You | a false traitor | tree rules | ||||
| 6 | harbour in a quote | present | you | tree rules | |||||
| 7 | mean in a quote | present | a villain | by some foul | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 8 | slay in a quote | past | a villain | my brother | vn murder-42.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent brother=Patient |
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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