Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France, How Huon Returned, His Errand Fulfilled, sentence 75
Huon answered him, "I am not of kin to him, I am a Frenchman born, and I slew your brother." "
Who acts: Huon · What happens: answer, not be, be, bear, slay · To what, where: Admiral, Huon, Frenchman, brother · 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 (Huon), 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 | Huon | Huon | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 answered | nsubj |
| 2 | answered | answer | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 answered | obj |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 kin | punct |
| 5 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 10 kin | punct |
| 6 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 10 kin | nsubj |
| 7 | am | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 10 kin | cop |
| 8 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 10 kin | advmod |
| 9 | of | of | ADP | _ | 10 kin | case |
| 10 | kin | kin | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 answered | parataxis |
| 11 | to | to | ADP | _ | 12 him | case |
| 12 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 10 kin | nmod |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 Frenchman | punct |
| 14 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 17 Frenchman | nsubj |
| 15 | am | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 17 Frenchman | cop |
| 16 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 17 Frenchman | det |
| 17 | Frenchman | frenchman | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 kin | conj |
| 18 | born | bear | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 17 Frenchman | acl |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 slew | punct |
| 20 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 22 slew | cc |
| 21 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 22 slew | nsubj |
| 22 | slew | slay | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 answered | conj |
| 23 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 24 brother | nmod:poss |
| 24 | brother | brother | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 slew | obj |
| 25 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 22 slew | punct |
| 26 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 22 slew | punct |
| 27 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 22 slew | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | answer speech: assert | past | Huon | Admiral | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | not is in a quote | present | Huon | Huon | of kin and a Frenchman | tree rules | |||
| 3 | is a in a quote | present | Huon | a Frenchman | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | bear in a quote | participle | a Frenchman not said here | vn admire-31.2 «NP V that S»: agent=Experiencer | |||||
| 5 | slay in a quote | past | Huon | your brother | vn murder-42.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent brother=Patient |
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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