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title: Yet when he looked upon Bayard, and had called to mind how many time… — Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of F… · tree and pragmatics
description: Yet when he looked upon Bayard, and had called to mind how many times the noble beast had saved his life, he repented him of his purpose. Who acts: Bayard, many times. A sentence of «Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France» by Alfred John Church, Of What Befell At Montalban, with its d
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# Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France, Of What Befell At Montalban, sentence 69

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Yet when he looked upon Bayard, and had called to mind how many times the noble beast had saved his life, he repented him of his purpose.

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**Who acts:** Bayard, many times · **What happens:** look, call, mind, save, repent, purpose · **To what, where:** noble beast, heart · **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 (Bayard, many times), 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:pg75339:11:69
# text = Yet when he looked upon Bayard, and had called to mind how many times the noble beast had saved his life, he repented him of his purpose.
1	Yet	yet	CCONJ	CC	_	25	cc	_	_
2	when	when	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	4	advmod	_	_
3	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	4	nsubj	_	_
4	looked	look	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	25	advcl	_	_
5	upon	upon	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
6	Bayard	Bayard	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
8	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	10	cc	_	_
9	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	10	aux	_	_
10	called	call	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	4	conj	_	_
11	to	to	PART	TO	_	12	mark	_	_
12	mind	mind	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	10	xcomp	_	_
13	how	how	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	14	advmod	_	_
14	many	many	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	15	amod	_	_
15	times	time	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	12	obj	_	_
16	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
17	noble	noble	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	18	amod	_	_
18	beast	beast	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	nsubj:pass	_	_
19	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	20	aux	_	_
20	saved	save	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	15	acl:relcl	_	_
21	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	22	nmod:poss	_	_
22	life	life	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	4	punct	_	_
24	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	25	nsubj	_	_
25	repented	repent	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
26	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	25	obj	_	_
27	of	of	ADP	IN	_	29	case	_	_
28	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	29	nmod:poss	_	_
29	purpose	purpose	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
30	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	25	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **look** | past | Bayard |  |  |  |  | upon Bayard | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent upon bayard=Theme |
| 2 | **call** | past · perfect | Bayard *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn manner\_speaking-37.3 «NP V how S\_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 3 | **mind** | to-infinitive | Bayard *not said here* |  |  |  | time |  | vn care-88.1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer |
| 4 | **save** | past · perfect · passive | many times *not said here* | the noble beast |  |  |  | Bayard's life *obj* | vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP.beneficiary NP»: subject=Beneficiary life=Theme |
| 5 | **repent** | past | Bayard | heart |  |  |  | of Bayard's purpose | tree rules |
| 6 | **purpose** |  | Bayard |  |  |  |  |  | nom purpose «cognition intransitive»: poss=agent |

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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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