Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France, How Huon Returned, His Errand Fulfilled, sentence 82
Then the giant was sore afraid and cried to Huon, "I yield me to you; I pray you to do me no hurt."
Who acts: giant · What happens: be, cry, yield, pray, do · To what, where: Huon, giant, hurt · 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), 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 | Then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 6 afraid | advmod |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 giant | det |
| 3 | giant | giant | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 afraid | nsubj |
| 4 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 afraid | cop |
| 5 | sore | sore | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 afraid | amod |
| 6 | afraid | afraid | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 8 cried | cc |
| 8 | cried | cry | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 afraid | conj |
| 9 | to | to | ADP | _ | 10 Huon | case |
| 10 | Huon | Huon | PROPN | Number=Sing | 8 cried | obl |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 yield | punct |
| 12 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 14 yield | punct |
| 13 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 14 yield | nsubj |
| 14 | yield | yield | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 8 cried | conj |
| 15 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 14 yield | obj |
| 16 | to | to | ADP | _ | 17 you | case |
| 17 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 14 yield | obl |
| 18 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 20 pray | punct |
| 19 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 20 pray | nsubj |
| 20 | pray | pray | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 6 afraid | conj |
| 21 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 20 pray | obj |
| 22 | to | to | PART | _ | 23 do | mark |
| 23 | do | do | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 20 pray | xcomp |
| 24 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 23 do | iobj |
| 25 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 26 hurt | det |
| 26 | hurt | hurt | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 do | obj |
| 27 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 afraid | punct |
| 28 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 6 afraid | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | the giant | then | afraid property | tree rules | |||
| 2 | cry speech: express | past | the giant not said here | Huon | vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V PP.recipient»: agent=Agent to huon=Recipient | ||||
| 3 | yield in a quote | present | the giant = giant | the giant = giant | Huon | vn future_having-13.3 «NP V NP PP.goal»: agent=Agent i=Theme to you=Goal | |||
| 4 | pray in a quote | present | the giant = giant | Huon | tree rules | ||||
| 5 | do in a quote | to-infinitive | the giant = giant not said here | no hurt | the giant = giant | tree rules |
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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