Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France, Of What Befell At Montalban, sentence 110

Reynaud and his kindred and his house being in these straits, there came an old man who would speak with him. "

Who acts: Reynaud, old man · What happens: be, come, speak · To what, where: straits · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France» by Alfred John Church, Of What Befell At Montalban. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Reynaud, old man), 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	Reynaud	Reynaud	PROPN	Number=Sing	11 straits	nsubj
2	and	and	CCONJ	_	4 kindred	cc
3	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	4 kindred	nmod:poss
4	kindred	kindred	ADJ	Degree=Pos	1 Reynaud	conj
5	and	and	CCONJ	_	7 house	cc
6	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	7 house	nmod:poss
7	house	house	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Reynaud	conj
8	being	be	AUX	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	11 straits	cop
9	in	in	ADP	_	11 straits	case
10	these	this	DET	Number=Plur PronType=Dem	11 straits	det
11	straits	strait	NOUN	Number=Plur	14 came	obl
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 straits	punct
13	there	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	14 came	expl
14	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
15	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	17 man	det
16	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	17 man	amod
17	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 came	nsubj
18	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	20 speak	nsubj
19	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	20 speak	aux
20	speak	speak	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	17 man	acl:relcl
21	with	with	ADP	_	22 him	case
22	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	20 speak	obl
23	.	.	PUNCT	_	14 came	punct
24	"	"	PUNCT	_	14 came	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	where	other	roles by
1	is	gerund	Reynaud and Reynaud's house	this straits		tree rules
2	come	past	a old man	there		vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	speak speech: other	would	a old man		with Reynaud	vn talk-37.5 «NP V PP.co-agent»: agent=Agent with he=Co-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.

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🌲 Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France, Of What Befell At Montalban, sentence 110

The tree

Pragmatics

Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France, Of What Befell At Montalban, sentence 110