Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France, How Huon Returned, His Errand Fulfilled, sentence 70
It shall be done," said the Admiral, and he commanded that they should give the horn and the cup to Huon.
Who acts: Admiral, horn · What happens: do, say, command, give · To what, where: cup, horn, Huon · 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, horn), 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 | It | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 done | nsubj:pass |
| 2 | shall | shall | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 4 done | aux |
| 3 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 4 done | aux:pass |
| 4 | done | do | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 done | punct |
| 6 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 4 done | punct |
| 7 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 done | conj |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 Admiral | det |
| 9 | Admiral | admiral | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 said | nsubj |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 commanded | punct |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 commanded | cc |
| 12 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 13 commanded | nsubj |
| 13 | commanded | command | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 done | parataxis |
| 14 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 17 give | mark |
| 15 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 17 give | nsubj |
| 16 | should | should | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 17 give | aux |
| 17 | give | give | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 13 commanded | ccomp |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 horn | det |
| 19 | horn | horn | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 give | obj |
| 20 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 22 cup | cc |
| 21 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 22 cup | det |
| 22 | cup | cup | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 horn | conj |
| 23 | to | to | ADP | _ | 24 Huon | case |
| 24 | Huon | Huon | PROPN | Number=Sing | 17 give | obl |
| 25 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 done | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | do | shall · passive | cup | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | say speech: assert in a quote | past | the Admiral | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | command in a quote | past | Admiral | vn order-58.3-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 4 | give in a quote | should | horn | the horn and the cup | Huon | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent horn=Theme to huon=Recipient |
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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