Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France, How Ralph Went to Court, sentence 75

And he said, "Would I were on the moor again this very hour, and the King alone, or any one of his knights, be he the bravest and strongest of them all."

Who acts: King · What happens: say, be, one · To what, where: moor · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France» by Alfred John Church, How Ralph Went to Court. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (King), 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	_	3 said	cc
2	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 said	nsubj
3	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 moor	punct
5	"	"	PUNCT	_	11 moor	punct
6	Would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	11 moor	aux
7	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	11 moor	nsubj
8	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	11 moor	cop
9	on	on	ADP	_	11 moor	case
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 moor	det
11	moor	moor	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 said	ccomp
12	again	again	ADV	_	11 moor	advmod
13	this	this	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	15 hour	det
14	very	very	ADV	_	15 hour	advmod
15	hour	hour	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 said	obl:unmarked
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	24 one	punct
17	and	and	CCONJ	_	24 one	cc
18	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	19 King	det
19	King	King	PROPN	Number=Sing	24 one	nsubj
20	alone	alone	ADV	_	19 King	advmod
21	,	,	PUNCT	_	24 one	punct
22	or	or	CCONJ	_	24 one	cc
23	any	any	DET	PronType=Ind	24 one	det
24	one	one	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 said	ccomp
25	of	of	ADP	_	27 knights	case
26	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	27 knights	nmod:poss
27	knights	knight	NOUN	Number=Plur	24 one	nmod
28	,	,	PUNCT	_	37 all	punct
29	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	37 all	cop
30	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	37 all	nsubj
31	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	37 all	det
32	bravest	brave	ADJ	Degree=Sup	37 all	amod
33	and	and	CCONJ	_	34 strongest	cc
34	strongest	strong	ADJ	Degree=Sup	32 bravest	conj
35	of	of	ADP	_	36 them	case
36	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	34 strongest	obl
37	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	24 one	conj
38	.	.	PUNCT	_	24 one	punct
39	"	"	PUNCT	_	24 one	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	where	when	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	past	King		hour		vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
2	is in a quote	would	King	the moor	again		tree rules
3	one in a quote		the King			of King's knights	tree rules

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, How Ralph Went to Court, sentence 75