Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France, How Huon Returned, His Errand Fulfilled, sentence 5
So they took the ship, the pagans not being able to hinder them.
Who acts: Gerames · What happens: take, not be, hinder · To what, where: ship, Gerames
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 (Gerames), 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 | So | so | ADV | _ | 3 took | advmod |
| 2 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 took | nsubj |
| 3 | took | take | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 ship | det |
| 5 | ship | ship | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 took | obj |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 pagans | punct |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 pagans | det |
| 8 | pagans | pagan | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 took | parataxis |
| 9 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 11 able | advmod |
| 10 | being | be | AUX | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 11 able | cop |
| 11 | able | able | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 pagans | advcl |
| 12 | to | to | PART | _ | 13 hinder | mark |
| 13 | hinder | hinder | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 11 able | xcomp |
| 14 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 13 hinder | obj |
| 15 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 took | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | take | past | Gerames = gerame | the ship | the pagans parataxis | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent ship=Theme | |||
| 2 | not is | gerund | Gerames = gerame not said here | able property | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | hinder | to-infinitive | Gerames = gerame not said here | Gerames = gerame | vn discourage-64.5-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Causer they=Eventuality |
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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