Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France, How Charlemagne Sought Vengeance, sentence 182

All quitted themselves as good knights, but there was none who bore himself so bravely as Ogier the Dane.

Who acts: none · What happens: quitt, be, bear · To what, where: men, King

This is a sentence of «Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France» by Alfred John Church, How Charlemagne Sought Vengeance. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (none), 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	All	all	DET	PronType=Tot	2 quitted	advmod
2	quitted	quitt	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	themselves	themselves	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	2 quitted	obj
4	as	as	ADP	_	6 knights	case
5	good	good	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 knights	amod
6	knights	knight	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 quitted	obl
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 was	punct
8	but	but	CCONJ	_	10 was	cc
9	there	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	10 was	expl
10	was	be	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 quitted	parataxis
11	none	none	PRON	PronType=Neg	10 was	nsubj
12	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	13 bore	nsubj
13	bore	bear	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	11 none	acl:relcl
14	himself	himself	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	13 bore	obj
15	so	so	ADV	_	16 bravely	advmod
16	bravely	bravely	ADV	_	13 bore	advmod
17	as	as	ADP	_	18 Ogier	case
18	Ogier	Ogier	PROPN	Number=Sing	16 bravely	obl
19	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	20 Dane	det
20	Dane	Dane	PROPN	Number=Sing	18 Ogier	appos
21	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 quitted	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	quitt	past		men = man		as good knights	tree rules
2	be	past	none		there		vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	bear	past		King		who nsubj; bravely property	vn birth-28.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent himself=Patient

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 Charlemagne Sought Vengeance, sentence 182

The tree

Pragmatics

Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France, How Charlemagne Sought Vengeance, sentence 182