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" **Who acts:** Huon, damsel, sat. · **What happens:** wander, hear, weep, follow, come, say · **To what, where:** voice, sound, place, you · **Speech:** someone speaks here This is a sentence of «Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France» by Alfred John Church, How Huon, Having Slain a Giant, Came to Babylon. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Huon, damsel, sat.), 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 {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = book:pg75339:41:21 # text = After he had so wandered awhile, he heard the voice of a damsel that wept, which sound he followed till he came to the place where she sat. "Why weep you?" he said. " 1 After after SCONJ IN _ 5 mark _ _ 2 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 5 nsubj _ _ 3 had have AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 5 aux _ _ 4 so so ADV RB _ 5 advmod _ _ 5 wandered wander VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part 9 advcl _ _ 6 awhile awhile ADV RB _ 5 advmod _ SpaceAfter=No 7 , , PUNCT , _ 5 punct _ _ 8 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 9 nsubj _ _ 9 heard hear VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 10 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 11 det _ _ 11 voice voice NOUN NN Number=Sing 9 obj _ _ 12 of of ADP IN _ 14 case _ _ 13 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 14 det _ _ 14 damsel damsel NOUN NN Number=Sing 11 nmod _ _ 15 that that PRON WDT PronType=Rel 16 nsubj _ _ 16 wept weep VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 14 acl:relcl _ SpaceAfter=No 17 , , PUNCT , _ 19 punct _ _ 18 which which DET WDT PronType=Int 19 det _ _ 19 sound sound NOUN NN Number=Sing 11 conj _ _ 20 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 21 nsubj _ _ 21 followed follow VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 19 acl:relcl _ _ 22 till till SCONJ IN _ 24 mark _ _ 23 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 24 nsubj _ _ 24 came come VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 9 advcl _ _ 25 to to ADP IN _ 27 case _ _ 26 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 27 det _ _ 27 place place NOUN NN Number=Sing 24 obl _ _ 28 where where ADV WRB PronType=Rel 38 advmod _ _ 29 she she PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 30 nsubj _ _ 30 sat. Saturday PROPN NNP Abbr=Yes|Number=Sing 38 nsubj _ _ 31 " " PUNCT `` _ 33 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 32 Why why ADV WRB PronType=Int 33 advmod _ _ 33 weep weep VERB VB Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin 30 parataxis _ _ 34 you you PRON PRP Case=Acc|Person=2|PronType=Prs 33 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 35 ? ? PUNCT . _ 33 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 36 " " PUNCT '' _ 33 punct _ _ 37 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 38 nsubj _ _ 38 said say VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 27 acl:relcl _ SpaceAfter=No 39 . . PUNCT . _ 9 punct _ _ 40 " " PUNCT '' _ 9 punct _ SpaceAfter=No ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **wander** | past · perfect | Huon | | | | | awhile *property* | vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 2 | **hear** | past | Huon | the voice of a damsel and which sound | | | | | vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer voice=Stimulus | | 3 | **weep** | past | a damsel | | | | | | vn breathe-40.1.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 4 | **follow** | past | Huon | which sound *not said here* | | | | | vn chase-51.6 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent sound=Theme | | 5 | **come** | past | Huon | | | the place | | | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme to place=Initial\_Location | | 6 | **weep** *in a quote* | infinitive | | you | | | | | vn breathe-40.1.2 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent you=Theme | | 7 | **say** *speech: ask* | past | sat. gate | | | | | Huon *nsubj* | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: 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. - ← previous: [sentence 20](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg75339/41/20/) - next →: [sentence 22](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg75339/41/22/) - ↑ back to [How Huon, Having Slain a Giant, Came to Babylon](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg75339/41/)