Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France, Of What Befell At Montalban, sentence 37

Then said the Duke, "Surely it cannot but be that the King's heart will be softened when he shall hear how nobly Reynaud has borne himself in this matter." "

Who acts: Duke, Reynaud · What happens: say, soften, hear, bear · To what, where: heart, Reynaud, matter · 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 (Duke, 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	Then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	2 said	advmod
2	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 Duke	det
4	Duke	Duke	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 said	nsubj
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 said	punct
6	"	"	PUNCT	_	20 softened	punct
7	Surely	surely	ADV	_	9 can	advmod
8	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 can	nsubj
9	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	20 softened	aux
10	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	9 can	advmod
11	but	but	CCONJ	_	20 softened	cc
12	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	20 softened	aux:pass
13	that	that	SCONJ	_	20 softened	mark
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 King	det
15	King	King	PROPN	Number=Sing	17 heart	nmod:poss
16	's	's	PART	_	15 King	case
17	heart	heart	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 softened	nsubj:pass
18	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	20 softened	aux
19	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	20 softened	aux:pass
20	softened	soften	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	2 said	ccomp
21	when	when	SCONJ	_	24 hear	mark
22	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	24 hear	nsubj
23	shall	shall	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	24 hear	aux
24	hear	hear	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	20 softened	advcl
25	how	how	ADV	PronType=Int	29 borne	advmod
26	nobly	nobly	ADV	_	29 borne	advmod
27	Reynaud	Reynaud	PROPN	Number=Sing	29 borne	nsubj
28	has	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	29 borne	aux
29	borne	bear	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	24 hear	advcl
30	himself	himself	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	29 borne	obj
31	in	in	ADP	_	33 matter	case
32	this	this	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	33 matter	det
33	matter	matter	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 borne	obl
34	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 said	punct
35	"	"	PUNCT	_	2 said	punct
36	"	"	PUNCT	_	2 said	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	past	the Duke			then		vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	soften in a quote	can · future · passive		the King's heart				vn other_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: subject=Patient
3	hear in a quote	shall	Duke					vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V PP.stimulus»: agent=Experiencer
4	bear in a quote	present · perfect	Reynaud	Reynaud	this matter		nobly property	vn birth-28.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent himself=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 37

The tree

Pragmatics

Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France, Of What Befell At Montalban, sentence 37