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title: Old I am, but yet I can ride my horse in battle, and my sinews are w… — Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of F… · tree and pragmatics
description: Old I am, but yet I can ride my horse in battle, and my sinews are well set, and I have enough of strength to fight my enemies." " Who acts: I. A sentence of «Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France» by Alfred John Church, Of the Doings of the French Knights, with its dependency tree a
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# Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France, Of the Doings of the French Knights, sentence 91

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Old I am, but yet I can ride my horse in battle, and my sinews are well set, and I have enough of strength to fight my enemies." "

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**Who acts:** I · **What happens:** be, ride, set, have, fight · **To what, where:** horse, battle, sinews, enough, enemies

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This is a sentence of «Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France» by Alfred John Church, Of the Doings of the French Knights. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (I), 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:pg75339:22:91
# text = Old I am, but yet I can ride my horse in battle, and my sinews are well set, and I have enough of strength to fight my enemies." "
1	Old	old	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
2	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
3	am	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	1	cop	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	9	punct	_	_
5	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	9	cc	_	_
6	yet	yet	ADV	RB	_	9	advmod	_	_
7	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	9	nsubj	_	_
8	can	can	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	9	aux	_	_
9	ride	ride	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	1	parataxis	_	_
10	my	my	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	11	nmod:poss	_	_
11	horse	horse	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obj	_	_
12	in	in	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
13	battle	battle	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	20	punct	_	_
15	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	20	cc	_	_
16	my	my	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	17	nmod:poss	_	_
17	sinews	sinew	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	20	nsubj:pass	_	_
18	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	20	aux:pass	_	_
19	well	well	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	20	advmod	_	_
20	set	set	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	9	parataxis	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	24	punct	_	_
22	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	24	cc	_	_
23	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	24	nsubj	_	_
24	have	have	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	20	conj	_	_
25	enough	enough	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	24	obj	_	_
26	of	of	ADP	IN	_	27	case	_	_
27	strength	strength	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	obl	_	_
28	to	to	PART	TO	_	29	mark	_	_
29	fight	fight	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	25	advcl	_	_
30	my	my	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	31	nmod:poss	_	_
31	enemies	enemy	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	29	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
32	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	1	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
33	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	1	punct	_	_
34	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	1	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | present |  |  |  |  |  | old *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **ride** | can | I | my horse |  | battle | yet |  | vn nonvehicle-51.4.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent horse=Theme |
| 3 | **set** | present · passive |  | my sinews |  |  |  | well *property* | vn other\_cos-45.4-1 «NP V NP ADJ»: subject=Result |
| 4 | **have** | present | I | enough of strength |  |  |  |  | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent enough=Patient |
| 5 | **fight** | to-infinitive | I *not said here* | my enemies |  |  |  |  | vn battle-36.4-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent enemy=Co-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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