Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France, More Deeds of Mawgis, sentence 66

When they were come to the gate, they called the porter and said to him, "We be knights of the King, and would fain speak with Sir Reynaud."

Who acts: Barons, We · What happens: come, call, say, be, speak · To what, where: Barons, porter, Montalban, knights · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France» by Alfred John Church, More Deeds 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 (Barons, We), 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	When	when	ADV	PronType=Int	4 come	advmod
2	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 come	nsubj
3	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 come	aux:pass
4	come	come	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
5	to	to	ADP	_	7 gate	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 gate	det
7	gate	gate	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 come	obl
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 called	punct
9	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 called	nsubj
10	called	call	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 come	parataxis
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 porter	det
12	porter	porter	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 called	obj
13	and	and	CCONJ	_	14 said	cc
14	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	10 called	conj
15	to	to	ADP	_	16 him	case
16	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	14 said	obl
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 knights	punct
18	"	"	PUNCT	_	21 knights	punct
19	We	we	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	21 knights	nsubj
20	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	21 knights	cop
21	knights	knight	NOUN	Number=Plur	14 said	obl
22	of	of	ADP	_	24 King	case
23	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	24 King	det
24	King	King	PROPN	Number=Sing	21 knights	nmod
25	,	,	PUNCT	_	28 fain	punct
26	and	and	CCONJ	_	28 fain	cc
27	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	28 fain	aux
28	fain	fain	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 come	parataxis
29	speak	speak	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	28 fain	xcomp
30	with	with	ADP	_	32 Reynaud	case
31	Sir	Sir	PROPN	Number=Sing	32 Reynaud	nmod:desc
32	Reynaud	Reynaud	PROPN	Number=Sing	29 speak	obl
33	.	.	PUNCT	_	28 fain	punct
34	"	"	PUNCT	_	28 fain	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	other	roles by
1	come	past · passive		Barons = baron		to the gate	tree rules
2	call	past	Barons = baron	the porter			vn initiate_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent porter=Recipient
3	say speech: assert	past	Barons = baron not said here		Montalban		vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V PP.recipient S-Quote»: agent=Agent to he=Recipient
4	is a in a quote	infinitive	We	knights		of the King	tree rules
5	speak speech: other in a quote	infinitive				with Reynaud Sir	vn talk-37.5 «NP V PP.co-agent»: agent=Agent with reynaud=Co-Agent

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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The tree

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Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France, More Deeds of Mawgis, sentence 66