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The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Many, 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 {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = book:pg75339:41:95 # text = Many he slew; but when he had fought for an hour or more, and the number of the enemy was increased rather than diminished, and he had grown faint with heat and toil, then he was constrained to yield. 1 Many many ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 3 nsubj _ _ 2 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 3 nsubj _ _ 3 slew slay VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ SpaceAfter=No 4 ; ; PUNCT , _ 9 punct _ _ 5 but but CCONJ CC _ 9 cc _ _ 6 when when SCONJ WRB _ 9 mark _ _ 7 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 9 nsubj _ _ 8 had have AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 9 aux _ _ 9 fought fight VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part 3 conj _ _ 10 for for ADP IN _ 12 case _ _ 11 an a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 12 det _ _ 12 hour hour NOUN NN Number=Sing 9 obl _ _ 13 or or CCONJ CC _ 14 cc _ _ 14 more more ADJ JJR Degree=Cmp 12 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 15 , , PUNCT , _ 23 punct _ _ 16 and and CCONJ CC _ 23 cc _ _ 17 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 18 det _ _ 18 number number NOUN NN Number=Sing 23 nsubj _ _ 19 of of ADP IN _ 21 case _ _ 20 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 21 det _ _ 21 enemy enemy NOUN NN Number=Sing 18 nmod _ _ 22 was be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 23 aux:pass _ _ 23 increased increase VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 9 parataxis _ _ 24 rather rather ADV RB ExtPos=CCONJ 26 cc _ _ 25 than than ADP IN _ 24 fixed _ _ 26 diminished diminish VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 23 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 27 , , PUNCT , _ 31 punct _ _ 28 and and CCONJ CC _ 31 cc _ _ 29 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 31 nsubj _ _ 30 had have AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 31 aux _ _ 31 grown grow VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part 3 parataxis _ _ 32 faint faint ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 31 xcomp _ _ 33 with with ADP IN _ 34 case _ _ 34 heat heat NOUN NN Number=Sing 31 obl _ _ 35 and and CCONJ CC _ 36 cc _ _ 36 toil toil NOUN NN Number=Sing 34 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 37 , , PUNCT , _ 41 punct _ _ 38 then then ADV RB PronType=Dem 41 advmod _ _ 39 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 41 nsubj _ _ 40 was be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 41 aux:pass _ _ 41 constrained constrain VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 31 conj _ _ 42 to to PART TO _ 43 mark _ _ 43 yield yield VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 41 xcomp _ SpaceAfter=No 44 . . PUNCT . _ 3 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **slay** | past | Many | | | | | Huon *nsubj* | vn murder-42.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | | 2 | **fight** | past · perfect | Huon | | | | hour | | vn battle-36.4-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 3 | **increase** | past · passive | | the number of the enemy | | | | | vn caused\_calibratable\_cos-45.6.2-1 «NP V NP.patient»: subject=Patient | | 4 | **diminish** | participle | | | | | | | vn caused\_calibratable\_cos-45.6.2-1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Patient | | 5 | **grow** | past · perfect | Huon | | | | | with heat and toil; faint *property* | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 6 | **constrain** | past · passive | | Huon | | | then | | vn limit-76 «NP V NP S\_INF»: subject=Patient clause=Goal | | 7 | **yield** | to-infinitive | | | | | | | vn acquiesce-95.1-1 «NP V»: 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 94](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg75339/41/94/) - next →: [sentence 96](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg75339/41/96/) - ↑ back to [How Huon, Having Slain a Giant, Came to Babylon](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg75339/41/)