Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France, Of What Befell At Montalban, sentence 66

And when the brethren would have had him also killed for food, Reynaud withstood them, saying that he would sooner die than that his horse should be killed.

Who acts: brethren, Reynaud, Bayard · What happens: have, kill, withstand, say, die · To what, where: Bayard, ladders, 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 (brethren, Reynaud, Bayard), 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	And	and	CCONJ	_	10 killed	cc
2	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	7 had	advmod
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 brethren	det
4	brethren	brethren	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 had	nsubj
5	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	7 had	aux
6	have	have	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	7 had	aux
7	had	have	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	10 killed	advcl
8	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 had	obj
9	also	also	ADV	_	10 killed	advmod
10	killed	kill	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
11	for	for	ADP	_	12 food	case
12	food	food	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 killed	obl
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 withstood	punct
14	Reynaud	Reynaud	PROPN	Number=Sing	15 withstood	nsubj
15	withstood	withstand	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	10 killed	conj
16	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	15 withstood	obj
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 saying	punct
18	saying	say	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	15 withstood	advcl
19	that	that	SCONJ	_	23 die	mark
20	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	23 die	nsubj
21	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	23 die	aux
22	sooner	soon	ADV	Degree=Cmp	23 die	advmod
23	die	die	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	18 saying	ccomp
24	than	than	ADP	_	25 that	case
25	that	that	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	23 die	obl
26	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	27 horse	nmod:poss
27	horse	horse	NOUN	Number=Sing	30 killed	nsubj:pass
28	should	should	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	30 killed	aux
29	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	30 killed	aux:pass
30	killed	kill	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	23 die	ccomp
31	.	.	PUNCT	_	10 killed	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	have	would · perfect	the brethren	Bayard		vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Patient
2	kill	past			for food	vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer
3	withstand	past	Reynaud	ladders = ladder		tree rules
4	say speech: assert	gerund	Reynaud not said here			vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
5	die	would	Bayard		than that; soon property	vn long-32.2 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme
6	kill	should · passive		Bayard's horse		vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: subject=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 66

The tree

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Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France, Of What Befell At Montalban, sentence 66