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title: And do you remember further how last night, when we were resting in… — Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of F… · tree and pragmatics
description: And do you remember further how last night, when we were resting in our tents, you, being full of wine, declared stoutly that your old knights would have borne themselves better than we of the younger sort had done? Who acts: you, we. A sentence of «Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of Fra
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# Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France, How Fierabras Defied King Charles, sentence 26

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And do you remember further how last night, when we were resting in our tents, you, being full of wine, declared stoutly that your old knights would have borne themselves better than we of the younger sort had done?

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**Who acts:** you, we · **What happens:** remember, rest, be, declare, bear, do · **To what, where:** tents, old knights

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This is a sentence of «Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France» by Alfred John Church, How Fierabras Defied King Charles. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (you, we), 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:pg75339:16:26
# text = And do you remember further how last night, when we were resting in our tents, you, being full of wine, declared stoutly that your old knights would have borne themselves better than we of the younger sort had done?
1	And	and	CCONJ	CC	_	4	cc	_	_
2	do	do	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	aux	_	_
3	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	4	nsubj	_	_
4	remember	remember	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
5	further	far	ADV	RBR	Degree=Cmp	4	advmod	_	_
6	how	how	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	7	advmod	_	_
7	last	last	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	amod	_	_
8	night	night	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obl:unmarked	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
10	when	when	SCONJ	WRB	_	13	mark	_	_
11	we	we	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs	13	nsubj	_	_
12	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	13	aux	_	_
13	resting	rest	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	25	advcl	_	_
14	in	in	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
15	our	our	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	16	nmod:poss	_	_
16	tents	tent	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	13	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	21	punct	_	_
18	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	21	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	21	punct	_	_
20	being	be	AUX	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	21	cop	_	_
21	full	full	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	13	conj	_	_
22	of	of	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
23	wine	wine	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	25	punct	_	_
25	declared	declare	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	advcl	_	_
26	stoutly	stoutly	ADV	RB	_	25	advmod	_	_
27	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	33	mark	_	_
28	your	your	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	30	nmod:poss	_	_
29	old	old	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	30	amod	_	_
30	knights	knight	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	33	nsubj:pass	_	_
31	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	33	aux	_	_
32	have	have	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	33	aux	_	_
33	borne	bear	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	25	advcl	_	_
34	themselves	themselves	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs|Reflex=Yes	33	obj	_	_
35	better	good	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	33	xcomp	_	_
36	than	than	SCONJ	IN	_	43	mark	_	_
37	we	we	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs	43	nsubj	_	_
38	of	of	ADP	IN	_	41	case	_	_
39	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	41	det	_	_
40	younger	young	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	41	amod	_	_
41	sort	sort	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	43	obl	_	_
42	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	43	aux	_	_
43	done	do	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	35	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
44	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **remember** | present · do-support | you |  |  |  | night | far *property* | vn characterize-29.2-1-1 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **rest** | past · progressive | we |  |  | our tents |  |  | vn spatial\_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V NP.theme PP»: agent=Agent in tent=Location |
| 3 | **is** | gerund | you |  |  |  |  | of wine; full *property* | tree rules |
| 4 | **declare** *speech: other* | past | you *not said here* |  |  |  |  | stoutly *property* | vn declare-29.4-1-1-1 «NP V what S\_INF»: agent=Agent |
| 5 | **bear** | would · perfect · passive |  | your old knights |  |  |  | tents *= tent* *obj*; good *property* | vn birth-28.2-1-1 «NP V NP NP»: subject=Beneficiary themselves=Patient |
| 6 | **do** | past · perfect | we |  |  |  |  | of the younger sort | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=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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