Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France, How Huon Returned, His Errand Fulfilled, sentence 87

The giant knelt down, and said, "I did think myself the most mighty man upon the whole face of the earth, and that not ten men could prevail over me, but now am I overcome by one only.

Who acts: giant, ten men · What happens: kneel down, say, think, prevail, be · To what, where: giant · 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, ten men), 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	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 giant	det
2	giant	giant	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 knelt	nsubj
3	knelt	kneel	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	down	down	ADP	_	3 knelt	compound:prt
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 said	punct
6	and	and	CCONJ	_	7 said	cc
7	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 knelt	conj
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 think	punct
9	"	"	PUNCT	_	12 think	punct
10	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	12 think	nsubj
11	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	12 think	aux
12	think	think	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	7 said	ccomp
13	myself	myself	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	12 think	obj
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	17 man	det
15	most	most	ADV	Degree=Sup	16 mighty	advmod
16	mighty	mighty	ADJ	Degree=Pos	17 man	amod
17	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 think	obj
18	upon	upon	ADP	_	21 face	case
19	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	21 face	det
20	whole	whole	ADJ	Degree=Pos	21 face	amod
21	face	face	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 man	nmod
22	of	of	ADP	_	24 earth	case
23	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	24 earth	det
24	earth	earth	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 face	nmod
25	,	,	PUNCT	_	32 prevail	punct
26	and	and	CCONJ	_	32 prevail	cc
27	that	that	SCONJ	_	32 prevail	mark
28	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	29 ten	advmod
29	ten	ten	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	30 men	nummod
30	men	man	NOUN	Number=Plur	32 prevail	nsubj
31	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	32 prevail	aux
32	prevail	prevail	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	12 think	conj
33	over	over	ADP	_	34 me	case
34	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	32 prevail	obl
35	,	,	PUNCT	_	40 overcome	punct
36	but	but	CCONJ	_	40 overcome	cc
37	now	now	ADV	PronType=Dem	40 overcome	advmod
38	am	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	40 overcome	cop
39	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	40 overcome	nsubj
40	overcome	overcome	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 knelt	conj
41	by	by	ADP	_	42 one	case
42	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	40 overcome	obl
43	only	only	ADV	_	42 one	advmod
44	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 knelt	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	kneel down	past	the giant				vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	say speech: assert	past	the giant not said here				vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
3	think speech: other in a quote	past · do-support	the giant = giant	the giant = giant		the mighty man obj	vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V NP ADJ»: agent=Agent myself=Theme man=Attribute
4	prevail in a quote	could	ten men			over the giant = giant	vn exist-47.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme over i=Location
5	is in a quote	present	the giant = giant		now	by one; overcome property	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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The tree

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Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France, How Huon Returned, His Errand Fulfilled, sentence 87