Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France, The Coming of Roland, sentence 27
Never did knight bear himself better," answered the Duke, "only he needs a horse that should carry him well when he is fully armed.
Who acts: knight, Duke, horse · What happens: not bear, answer, need, carry, be · To what, where: knight, Duke, horse · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France» by Alfred John Church, The Coming of Roland. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (knight, Duke, horse), 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 | Never | never | ADV | PronType=Neg | 4 bear | advmod |
| 2 | did | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 bear | aux |
| 3 | knight | knight | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 bear | nsubj |
| 4 | bear | bear | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 5 | himself | himself | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 4 bear | obj |
| 6 | better | good | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 4 bear | xcomp |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 answered | punct |
| 8 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 9 answered | punct |
| 9 | answered | answer | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 bear | parataxis |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 Duke | det |
| 11 | Duke | Duke | PROPN | Number=Sing | 9 answered | obj |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 needs | punct |
| 13 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 16 needs | punct |
| 14 | only | only | ADV | _ | 16 needs | advmod |
| 15 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 16 needs | nsubj |
| 16 | needs | need | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 bear | conj |
| 17 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 18 horse | det |
| 18 | horse | horse | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 needs | obj |
| 19 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 21 carry | nsubj |
| 20 | should | should | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 21 carry | aux |
| 21 | carry | carry | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 18 horse | acl:relcl |
| 22 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 21 carry | obj |
| 23 | well | well | ADV | Degree=Pos | 21 carry | advmod |
| 24 | when | when | SCONJ | _ | 28 armed | mark |
| 25 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 28 armed | nsubj |
| 26 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 28 armed | cop |
| 27 | fully | fully | ADV | _ | 28 armed | advmod |
| 28 | armed | armed | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 21 carry | advcl |
| 29 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 bear | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not bear | past · do-support | knight | knight | good property | tree rules | |||
| 2 | answer speech: assert in a quote | past | the Duke | vn reciprocate-112-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent duke=Eventuality | |||||
| 3 | need | present | Duke | a horse | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot horse=Theme | ||||
| 4 | carry | should | a horse | Duke | well property | vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Theme | |||
| 5 | is | present | Duke | armed, fully property | 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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