Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France, Of Richard of Normandy, sentence 49

Then the Duke said to his own horse, "Farewell, my good horse; I am grieved that I cannot take thee when I will.

Who acts: Duke · What happens: say, grieve, not take · To what, where: own horse, Duke, thee · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France» by Alfred John Church, Of Richard of Normandy. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Duke), 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	Then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	4 said	advmod
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 Duke	det
3	Duke	Duke	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 said	nsubj
4	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	to	to	ADP	_	8 horse	case
6	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	8 horse	nmod:poss
7	own	own	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 horse	amod
8	horse	horse	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 said	obl
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 horse	punct
10	"	"	PUNCT	_	15 horse	punct
11	Farewell	farewell	INTJ	_	15 horse	discourse
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 horse	punct
13	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	15 horse	nmod:poss
14	good	good	ADJ	Degree=Pos	15 horse	amod
15	horse	horse	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 horse	conj
16	;	;	PUNCT	_	19 grieved	punct
17	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	19 grieved	nsubj
18	am	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	19 grieved	aux:pass
19	grieved	grieve	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	4 said	conj
20	that	that	SCONJ	_	24 take	mark
21	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	24 take	nsubj
22	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	24 take	aux
23	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	24 take	advmod
24	take	take	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	19 grieved	advcl
25	thee	thou	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=2 PronType=Prs Style=Arch	24 take	obj
26	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	28 will	advmod
27	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	28 will	nsubj
28	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	24 take	advcl
29	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 said	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	when	roles by
1	say speech: assert	past	the Duke		Duke's own horse and my good horse	then	vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V PP.recipient S-Quote»: agent=Agent to horse=Recipient
2	grieve in a quote	present · passive		the Duke = duke			vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: subject=Experiencer
3	not take in a quote	can	the Duke = duke	thee			vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent thou=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 Richard of Normandy, sentence 49

The tree

Pragmatics

Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France, Of Richard of Normandy, sentence 49