Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France, How Huon Returned, His Errand Fulfilled, sentence 90
I promise," and kneeling down in the sight of all, he swore he would be the Admiral's man.
Who acts: I, pardon · What happens: promise, kneel down, swear, be · To what, where: sight, man · 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 (I, pardon), 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 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 2 promise | nsubj |
| 2 | promise | promise | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 promise | punct |
| 4 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 2 promise | punct |
| 5 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 6 kneeling | cc |
| 6 | kneeling | kneel | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 2 promise | conj |
| 7 | down | down | ADV | _ | 6 kneeling | advmod |
| 8 | in | in | ADP | _ | 10 sight | case |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 sight | det |
| 10 | sight | sight | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 kneeling | obl |
| 11 | of | of | ADP | _ | 12 all | case |
| 12 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 10 sight | nmod |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 swore | punct |
| 14 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 15 swore | nsubj |
| 15 | swore | swear | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 promise | parataxis |
| 16 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 22 man | nsubj |
| 17 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 22 man | aux |
| 18 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 22 man | cop |
| 19 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 Admiral | det |
| 20 | Admiral | Admiral | PROPN | Number=Sing | 22 man | nmod:poss |
| 21 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 20 Admiral | case |
| 22 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 swore | ccomp |
| 23 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 promise | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | promise speech: promise | present | I | vn promise-37.13 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 2 | kneel down in a quote | gerund | I not said here | the sight of all | down property | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent in sight=Location | |||
| 3 | swear in a quote | past | pardon | vn conjecture-29.5 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 4 | is a in a quote | would | pardon | the Admiral's man | the Admiral nmod:poss | 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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