Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France, How Huon Returned, His Errand Fulfilled, sentence 69
But first you must give me back my horn and my cup that were taken from me." "
Who acts: you · What happens: give back, take · To what, where: horn, me, cup
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 (you), 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 | But | but | CCONJ | _ | 5 give | cc |
| 2 | first | first | ADV | NumForm=Word NumType=Ord | 5 give | advmod |
| 3 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 5 give | nsubj |
| 4 | must | must | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 5 give | aux |
| 5 | give | give | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 6 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 5 give | iobj |
| 7 | back | back | ADP | _ | 5 give | compound:prt |
| 8 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 9 horn | nmod:poss |
| 9 | horn | horn | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 give | obj |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 cup | cc |
| 11 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 12 cup | nmod:poss |
| 12 | cup | cup | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 horn | conj |
| 13 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 15 taken | nsubj:pass |
| 14 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 15 taken | aux:pass |
| 15 | taken | take | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 12 cup | acl:relcl |
| 16 | from | from | ADP | _ | 17 me | case |
| 17 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 15 taken | obl |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 give | punct |
| 19 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 5 give | punct |
| 20 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 5 give | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | give back | must | you | my horn and my cup | me | first property | vn give-13.1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent i=Recipient horn=Theme | ||
| 2 | take | past · passive | my cup | from me | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP PP.initial_location»: subject=Theme from i=Initial_Location |
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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