Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France, How Huon Returned, His Errand Fulfilled, sentence 63
He has challenged any man, yea, any two men, and I can find none that are willing to fight with him.
Who acts: Admiral, I · What happens: challenge, find, be, fight · To what, where: man, none
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, I), 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 | He | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 challenged | nsubj |
| 2 | has | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 challenged | aux |
| 3 | challenged | challenge | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 4 | any | any | DET | PronType=Ind | 5 man | det |
| 5 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 challenged | obj |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 yea | punct |
| 7 | yea | yea | INTJ | _ | 3 challenged | obj |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 men | punct |
| 9 | any | any | DET | PronType=Ind | 11 men | det |
| 10 | two | two | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 11 men | nummod |
| 11 | men | man | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 yea | conj |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 find | punct |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 16 find | cc |
| 14 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 16 find | nsubj |
| 15 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 16 find | aux |
| 16 | find | find | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 challenged | parataxis |
| 17 | none | none | PRON | PronType=Neg | 16 find | obj |
| 18 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 20 willing | nsubj |
| 19 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 20 willing | cop |
| 20 | willing | willing | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 17 none | acl:relcl |
| 21 | to | to | PART | _ | 22 fight | mark |
| 22 | fight | fight | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 20 willing | xcomp |
| 23 | with | with | ADP | _ | 24 him | case |
| 24 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 22 fight | obl |
| 25 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 challenged | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | challenge | present · perfect | Admiral | any man | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | find | can | I | none | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent none=Topic | ||||
| 3 | is | present | willing property | tree rules | |||||
| 4 | fight | to-infinitive | with Admiral | vn battle-36.4-1 «NP V PP.co-agent»: agent=Agent with he=Co-Agent |
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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