Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France, The Coming of Roland, sentence 67

Then said one knight, "See here the horse that will win the prize," and another said, "Verily, he will win, if God so favour him."

Who acts: horse, knight, God · What happens: say, see, win, favour · To what, where: one knight, horse, prize, another, knight · 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 (horse, knight, God), 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	2 said	advmod
2	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	4 knight	nummod
4	knight	knight	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 said	obj
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 See	punct
6	"	"	PUNCT	_	7 See	punct
7	See	see	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 said	ccomp
8	here	here	ADV	PronType=Dem	7 See	advmod
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 horse	det
10	horse	horse	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 See	obj
11	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	13 win	nsubj
12	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	13 win	aux
13	win	win	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	10 horse	acl:relcl
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 prize	det
15	prize	prize	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 win	obj
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 See	punct
17	"	"	PUNCT	_	7 See	punct
18	and	and	CCONJ	_	20 said	cc
19	another	another	DET	PronType=Ind	20 said	nsubj:pass
20	said	say	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	2 said	conj
21	,	,	PUNCT	_	23 Verily	punct
22	"	"	PUNCT	_	23 Verily	punct
23	Verily	verily	ADV	_	20 said	advmod
24	,	,	PUNCT	_	27 win	punct
25	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	27 win	nsubj
26	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	27 win	aux
27	win	win	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 said	parataxis
28	,	,	PUNCT	_	32 favour	punct
29	if	if	SCONJ	_	32 favour	mark
30	God	God	PROPN	Number=Sing	32 favour	nsubj
31	so	so	ADV	_	32 favour	advmod
32	favour	favour	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	27 win	conj
33	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	32 favour	obj
34	.	.	PUNCT	_	27 win	punct
35	"	"	PUNCT	_	27 win	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	past		one knight		then		tree rules
2	see in a quote	infinitive		the horse	here			vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer horse=Stimulus
3	win in a quote	future	the horse	the prize				vn succeed-74-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent prize=Eventuality
4	say speech: assert	participle · passive		another			verily property	vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: subject=Topic
5	win in a quote	future	knight					vn succeed-74-2 «NP V»: agent=Agent
6	favour in a quote	infinitive	God	knight				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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Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France, The Coming of Roland, sentence 67