Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France, Of What Befell At Montalban, sentence 61

When the boy Aymon, that was son to Reynaud, heard this, he said, "What profits it, uncle, to speak of that which is past and gone?

Who acts: boy Aymon, Aymon · What happens: be, hear, say, profit, speak, go · To what, where: son, Reynaud, this, horse · 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 (boy Aymon, Aymon), 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	When	when	ADV	PronType=Int	12 heard	advmod
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 Aymon	det
3	boy	boy	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 Aymon	compound
4	Aymon	Aymon	PROPN	Number=Sing	12 heard	nsubj
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 son	punct
6	that	that	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	8 son	det
7	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 son	cop
8	son	son	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 Aymon	appos
9	to	to	ADP	_	10 Reynaud	case
10	Reynaud	Reynaud	PROPN	Number=Sing	8 son	nmod
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 Aymon	punct
12	heard	hear	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	16 said	advcl
13	this	this	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	12 heard	obj
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 heard	punct
15	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	16 said	nsubj
16	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 profits	punct
18	"	"	PUNCT	_	20 profits	punct
19	What	what	PRON	PronType=Int	20 profits	nsubj
20	profits	profit	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	16 said	ccomp
21	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	20 profits	obj
22	,	,	PUNCT	_	23 uncle	punct
23	uncle	uncle	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 profits	obl
24	,	,	PUNCT	_	26 speak	punct
25	to	to	PART	_	26 speak	mark
26	speak	speak	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	20 profits	conj
27	of	of	ADP	_	28 that	case
28	that	that	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	26 speak	obl
29	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	31 past	nsubj
30	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	31 past	cop
31	past	past	ADJ	Degree=Pos	26 speak	parataxis
32	and	and	CCONJ	_	33 gone	cc
33	gone	go	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	31 past	conj
34	?	?	PUNCT	_	16 said	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	other	roles by
1	is a	past		that son	Reynaud		tree rules
2	hear	past	the boy Aymon	this			vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer this=Stimulus
3	say speech: ask	past	Aymon				vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
4	profit in a quote	present		horse		uncle obl; What nsubj	vn benefit-72.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Causer it=Beneficiary
5	speak speech: other in a quote	to-infinitive				of that	vn talk-37.5 «NP V»: agent=Agent
6	is in a quote	present				which nsubj; past property	tree rules
7	go in a quote	participle					vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

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 61