Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France, How Fierabras Defied King Charles, sentence 26

And do you remember further how last night, when we were resting in our tents, you, being full of wine, declared stoutly that your old knights would have borne themselves better than we of the younger sort had done?

Who acts: you, we · What happens: remember, rest, be, declare, bear, do · To what, where: tents, old knights

This is a sentence of «Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France» by Alfred John Church, How Fierabras Defied King Charles. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (you, we), 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	_	4 remember	cc
2	do	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 remember	aux
3	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	4 remember	nsubj
4	remember	remember	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	further	far	ADV	Degree=Cmp	4 remember	advmod
6	how	how	ADV	PronType=Int	7 last	advmod
7	last	last	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 night	amod
8	night	night	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 remember	obl:unmarked
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 resting	punct
10	when	when	SCONJ	_	13 resting	mark
11	we	we	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	13 resting	nsubj
12	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	13 resting	aux
13	resting	rest	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	25 declared	advcl
14	in	in	ADP	_	16 tents	case
15	our	our	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	16 tents	nmod:poss
16	tents	tent	NOUN	Number=Plur	13 resting	obl
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 full	punct
18	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	21 full	nsubj
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 full	punct
20	being	be	AUX	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	21 full	cop
21	full	full	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 resting	conj
22	of	of	ADP	_	23 wine	case
23	wine	wine	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 full	obl
24	,	,	PUNCT	_	25 declared	punct
25	declared	declare	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 remember	advcl
26	stoutly	stoutly	ADV	_	25 declared	advmod
27	that	that	SCONJ	_	33 borne	mark
28	your	your	PRON	Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	30 knights	nmod:poss
29	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	30 knights	amod
30	knights	knight	NOUN	Number=Plur	33 borne	nsubj:pass
31	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	33 borne	aux
32	have	have	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	33 borne	aux
33	borne	bear	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	25 declared	advcl
34	themselves	themselves	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	33 borne	obj
35	better	good	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	33 borne	xcomp
36	than	than	SCONJ	_	43 done	mark
37	we	we	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	43 done	nsubj
38	of	of	ADP	_	41 sort	case
39	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	41 sort	det
40	younger	young	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	41 sort	amod
41	sort	sort	NOUN	Number=Sing	43 done	obl
42	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	43 done	aux
43	done	do	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	35 better	advcl
44	?	?	PUNCT	_	4 remember	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	remember	present · do-support	you			night	far property	vn characterize-29.2-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Agent
2	rest	past · progressive	we		our tents			vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V NP.theme PP»: agent=Agent in tent=Location
3	is	gerund	you				of wine; full property	tree rules
4	declare speech: other	past	you not said here				stoutly property	vn declare-29.4-1-1-1 «NP V what S_INF»: agent=Agent
5	bear	would · perfect · passive		your old knights			tents = tent obj; good property	vn birth-28.2-1-1 «NP V NP NP»: subject=Beneficiary themselves=Patient
6	do	past · perfect	we				of the younger sort	vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent

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 Fierabras Defied King Charles, sentence 26

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Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France, How Fierabras Defied King Charles, sentence 26