Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France, Of the Doings of the French Knights, sentence 91

Old I am, but yet I can ride my horse in battle, and my sinews are well set, and I have enough of strength to fight my enemies." "

Who acts: I · What happens: be, ride, set, have, fight · To what, where: horse, battle, sinews, enough, enemies

This is a sentence of «Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France» by Alfred John Church, Of the Doings of the French Knights. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (I), 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	Old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
2	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	3 am	nsubj
3	am	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	1 Old	cop
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 ride	punct
5	but	but	CCONJ	_	9 ride	cc
6	yet	yet	ADV	_	9 ride	advmod
7	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	9 ride	nsubj
8	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	9 ride	aux
9	ride	ride	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	1 Old	parataxis
10	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	11 horse	nmod:poss
11	horse	horse	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 ride	obj
12	in	in	ADP	_	13 battle	case
13	battle	battle	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 ride	obl
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 set	punct
15	and	and	CCONJ	_	20 set	cc
16	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	17 sinews	nmod:poss
17	sinews	sinew	NOUN	Number=Plur	20 set	nsubj:pass
18	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	20 set	aux:pass
19	well	well	ADV	Degree=Pos	20 set	advmod
20	set	set	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	9 ride	parataxis
21	,	,	PUNCT	_	24 have	punct
22	and	and	CCONJ	_	24 have	cc
23	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	24 have	nsubj
24	have	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	20 set	conj
25	enough	enough	ADJ	Degree=Pos	24 have	obj
26	of	of	ADP	_	27 strength	case
27	strength	strength	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 enough	obl
28	to	to	PART	_	29 fight	mark
29	fight	fight	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	25 enough	advcl
30	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	31 enemies	nmod:poss
31	enemies	enemy	NOUN	Number=Plur	29 fight	obj
32	.	.	PUNCT	_	1 Old	punct
33	"	"	PUNCT	_	1 Old	punct
34	"	"	PUNCT	_	1 Old	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present					old property	tree rules
2	ride	can	I	my horse	battle	yet		vn nonvehicle-51.4.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent horse=Theme
3	set	present · passive		my sinews			well property	vn other_cos-45.4-1 «NP V NP ADJ»: subject=Result
4	have	present	I	enough of strength				vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent enough=Patient
5	fight	to-infinitive	I not said here	my enemies				vn battle-36.4-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent enemy=Co-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, Of the Doings of the French Knights, sentence 91

The tree

Pragmatics

Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France, Of the Doings of the French Knights, sentence 91