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title: And when the brethren would have had him also killed for food, Reyna… — Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of F… · tree and pragmatics
description: And when the brethren would have had him also killed for food, Reynaud withstood them, saying that he would sooner die than that his horse should be killed. Who acts: brethren, Reynaud, Bayard. A sentence of «Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France» by Alfred John Church, Of What Befel
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# Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France, Of What Befell At Montalban, sentence 66

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And when the brethren would have had him also killed for food, Reynaud withstood them, saying that he would sooner die than that his horse should be killed.

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**Who acts:** brethren, Reynaud, Bayard · **What happens:** have, kill, withstand, say, die · **To what, where:** Bayard, ladders, horse · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of «Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France» by Alfred John Church, Of What Befell At Montalban. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (brethren, Reynaud, Bayard), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

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**Mova's own parse.** This tree may be wrong.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = book:pg75339:11:66
# text = And when the brethren would have had him also killed for food, Reynaud withstood them, saying that he would sooner die than that his horse should be killed.
1	And	and	CCONJ	CC	_	10	cc	_	_
2	when	when	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	7	advmod	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	brethren	brethren	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	nsubj	_	_
5	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	7	aux	_	_
6	have	have	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	7	aux	_	_
7	had	have	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	10	advcl	_	_
8	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	7	obj	_	_
9	also	also	ADV	RB	_	10	advmod	_	_
10	killed	kill	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
11	for	for	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
12	food	food	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
14	Reynaud	Reynaud	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	15	nsubj	_	_
15	withstood	withstand	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	10	conj	_	_
16	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	15	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	_
18	saying	say	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	15	advcl	_	_
19	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	23	mark	_	_
20	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	23	nsubj	_	_
21	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	23	aux	_	_
22	sooner	soon	ADV	RBR	Degree=Cmp	23	advmod	_	_
23	die	die	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	18	ccomp	_	_
24	than	than	ADP	IN	_	25	case	_	_
25	that	that	PRON	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	23	obl	_	_
26	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	27	nmod:poss	_	_
27	horse	horse	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	30	nsubj:pass	_	_
28	should	should	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	30	aux	_	_
29	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	30	aux:pass	_	_
30	killed	kill	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	23	ccomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
31	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	10	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **have** | would · perfect | the brethren | Bayard |  |  |  |  | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Patient |
| 2 | **kill** | past |  |  |  |  |  | for food | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer |
| 3 | **withstand** | past | Reynaud | ladders *= ladder* |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 4 | **say** *speech: assert* | gerund | Reynaud *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 5 | **die** | would | Bayard |  |  |  |  | than that; soon *property* | vn long-32.2 «NP V S\_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme |
| 6 | **kill** | should · passive |  | Bayard's horse |  |  |  |  | vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme |

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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.

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**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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