Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France, Of the Craft of Mawgis, sentence 38

And when they would have kept him back he said, "I know that he is the strongest knight in all the world.

Who acts: Roland · What happens: keep back, say, know, be · To what, where: marks, strongest knight, world · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France» by Alfred John Church, Of the Craft of Mawgis. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Roland), 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	And	and	CCONJ	_	10 said	cc
2	when	when	SCONJ	_	6 kept	mark
3	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 kept	nsubj:pass
4	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	6 kept	aux
5	have	have	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	6 kept	aux
6	kept	keep	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	10 said	advcl
7	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 kept	obj
8	back	back	ADV	_	6 kept	advmod
9	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 said	nsubj
10	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 know	punct
12	"	"	PUNCT	_	14 know	punct
13	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	14 know	nsubj
14	know	know	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	10 said	ccomp
15	that	that	SCONJ	_	20 knight	mark
16	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	20 knight	nsubj
17	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	20 knight	cop
18	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	20 knight	det
19	strongest	strong	ADJ	Degree=Sup	20 knight	amod
20	knight	knight	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 know	ccomp
21	in	in	ADP	_	24 world	case
22	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	24 world	det:predet
23	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	24 world	det
24	world	world	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 knight	nmod
25	.	.	PUNCT	_	10 said	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	keep back	would · perfect · passive		marks = mark		Roland obj	vn sustain-55.6-1 «NP V NP ADJ»: subject=Theme he=Attribute
2	say speech: assert	past	Roland				vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
3	know in a quote	present	Roland				vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer
4	is a in a quote	present	Roland	the strongest knight	all world		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, Of the Craft of Mawgis, sentence 38

The tree

Pragmatics

Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France, Of the Craft of Mawgis, sentence 38