Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France, Of What Befell At Montalban, sentence 31

I will that my sovereign lord should ride back upon him to his camp; better horse he could not have."

Who acts: I, sovereign lord, Reynaud · What happens: that, ride back, not have · To what, where: camp, better horse

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 (I, sovereign lord, Reynaud), 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	3 that	nsubj
2	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	3 that	aux
3	that	that	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
4	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	6 lord	nmod:poss
5	sovereign	sovereign	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 lord	compound
6	lord	lord	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 ride	nsubj
7	should	should	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	8 ride	aux
8	ride	ride	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 that	parataxis
9	back	back	ADV	_	8 ride	advmod
10	upon	upon	ADP	_	11 him	case
11	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 ride	obl
12	to	to	ADP	_	14 camp	case
13	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	14 camp	nmod:poss
14	camp	camp	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 ride	obl
15	;	;	PUNCT	_	17 horse	punct
16	better	good	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	17 horse	amod
17	horse	horse	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 that	parataxis
18	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	21 have	nsubj
19	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	21 have	aux
20	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	21 have	advmod
21	have	have	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	17 horse	acl:relcl
22	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 that	punct
23	"	"	PUNCT	_	3 that	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	that	future	I			better horse parataxis	tree rules
2	ride back	should	my sovereign lord		Reynaud's camp	upon Reynaud	vn nonvehicle-51.4.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent to camp=Trajectory
3	not have	could	Reynaud	better horse not said here			vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent horse=Patient

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 31

The tree

Pragmatics

Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France, Of What Befell At Montalban, sentence 31