Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France, Of the Craft of Mawgis, sentence 88

The false pilgrim answered, "Sire, I have travelled in many lands, but never saw I, whether among Saracens or Christian men, so godly and courteous a prince.

Who acts: false pilgrim · What happens: answer, travell, not see · To what, where: Sire, many lands, false pilgrim · 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 (false pilgrim), 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	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 pilgrim	det
2	false	false	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 pilgrim	amod
3	pilgrim	pilgrim	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 answered	nsubj
4	answered	answer	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 Sire	punct
6	"	"	PUNCT	_	7 Sire	punct
7	Sire	sire	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 answered	obj
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 travelled	punct
9	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	11 travelled	nsubj
10	have	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	11 travelled	aux
11	travelled	travell	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	7 Sire	acl:relcl
12	in	in	ADP	_	14 lands	case
13	many	many	ADJ	Degree=Pos	14 lands	amod
14	lands	land	NOUN	Number=Plur	11 travelled	obl
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 saw	punct
16	but	but	CCONJ	_	18 saw	cc
17	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	18 saw	advmod
18	saw	see	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 answered	conj
19	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	18 saw	obj
20	,	,	PUNCT	_	23 Saracens	punct
21	whether	whether	SCONJ	_	23 Saracens	case
22	among	among	ADP	_	23 Saracens	case
23	Saracens	saracen	NOUN	Number=Plur	18 saw	obj
24	or	or	CCONJ	_	26 men	cc
25	Christian	Christian	ADJ	Degree=Pos	26 men	amod
26	men	man	NOUN	Number=Plur	23 Saracens	conj
27	,	,	PUNCT	_	29 godly	punct
28	so	so	ADV	_	29 godly	advmod
29	godly	godly	ADJ	Degree=Pos	23 Saracens	conj
30	and	and	CCONJ	_	31 courteous	cc
31	courteous	courteous	ADJ	Degree=Pos	29 godly	conj
32	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	33 prince	det
33	prince	prince	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 godly	appos
34	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 answered	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	answer speech: assert	past	the false pilgrim	Sire			vn reciprocate-112-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent sire=Eventuality
2	travell in a quote	present · perfect	the false pilgrim = pilgrim	Sire not said here	many lands		tree rules
3	not see in a quote	past	the false pilgrim not said here	the false pilgrim = pilgrim		Saracens or Christian men obj	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 88