Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France, How Huon Returned, His Errand Fulfilled, sentence 74
When the giant and Huon came together in the field, the giant asked this question, "What is your kinship to the Admiral that you are willing to fight for him?"
Who acts: giant Huon, giant, question, you · What happens: come together, ask, be, fight · To what, where: field, question, kinship · 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 (giant Huon, giant, question, 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 | When | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 6 came | advmod |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 Huon | det |
| 3 | giant | giant | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 Huon | amod |
| 4 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 5 Huon | cc |
| 5 | Huon | Huon | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 came | nsubj |
| 6 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 14 asked | advcl |
| 7 | together | together | ADV | _ | 6 came | advmod |
| 8 | in | in | ADP | _ | 10 field | case |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 field | det |
| 10 | field | field | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 came | obl |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 came | punct |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 giant | det |
| 13 | giant | giant | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 asked | nsubj |
| 14 | asked | ask | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 15 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 16 question | det |
| 16 | question | question | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 asked | obj |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 kinship | punct |
| 18 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 22 kinship | punct |
| 19 | What | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 22 kinship | nsubj |
| 20 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 22 kinship | cop |
| 21 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 22 kinship | nmod:poss |
| 22 | kinship | kinship | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 question | appos |
| 23 | to | to | ADP | _ | 25 Admiral | case |
| 24 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 25 Admiral | det |
| 25 | Admiral | admiral | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 kinship | nmod |
| 26 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 29 willing | mark |
| 27 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 29 willing | nsubj |
| 28 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 29 willing | cop |
| 29 | willing | willing | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 22 kinship | parataxis |
| 30 | to | to | PART | _ | 31 fight | mark |
| 31 | fight | fight | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 29 willing | xcomp |
| 32 | for | for | ADP | _ | 33 him | case |
| 33 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 31 fight | obl |
| 34 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 29 willing | punct |
| 35 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 29 willing | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | come together | past | the giant Huon | the field | together property | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in field=Location | |||
| 2 | ask speech: ask | past | the giant | this question | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent question=Recipient | ||||
| 3 | is a in a quote | present | this question | your kinship | to the Admiral; your nmod:poss | tree rules | |||
| 4 | is in a quote | present | you | willing property | tree rules | ||||
| 5 | fight in a quote | to-infinitive | you not said here | for Huon | vn battle-36.4-1 «NP V»: agent=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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