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title: The good steed bounded forward, and all the men of France cried out,… — Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of F… · tree and pragmatics
description: The good steed bounded forward, and all the men of France cried out, "A brave man is our King; not one of us will fail him." Who acts: good steed, brave man, one. A sentence of «Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France» by Alfred John Church, How Charlemagne Sought Vengeance, with its d
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# Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France, How Charlemagne Sought Vengeance, sentence 146

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The good steed bounded forward, and all the men of France cried out, "A brave man is our King; not one of us will fail him."

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**Who acts:** good steed, brave man, one · **What happens:** bound, cry out, be, fail · **To what, where:** good steed, King, steed · **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, How Charlemagne Sought Vengeance. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (good steed, brave man, one), 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:pg75339:36:146
# text = The good steed bounded forward, and all the men of France cried out, "A brave man is our King; not one of us will fail him."
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	good	good	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	steed	steed	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	nsubj	_	_
4	bounded	bound	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	3	acl	_	_
5	forward	forward	ADV	RB	_	4	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
7	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	13	cc	_	_
8	all	all	DET	PDT	PronType=Tot	10	det:predet	_	_
9	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
10	men	man	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	13	nsubj	_	_
11	of	of	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
12	France	France	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	10	nmod	_	_
13	cried	cry	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
14	out	out	ADP	RP	_	13	compound:prt	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	22	punct	_	_
16	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	22	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	19	det	_	_
18	brave	brave	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	19	amod	_	_
19	man	man	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	nsubj	_	_
20	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	22	cop	_	_
21	our	our	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	22	nmod:poss	_	_
22	King	king	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	29	punct	_	_
24	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	25	advmod	_	_
25	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	29	nsubj	_	_
26	of	of	ADP	IN	_	27	case	_	_
27	us	we	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs	25	nmod	_	_
28	will	will	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	29	aux	_	_
29	fail	fail	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	13	parataxis	_	_
30	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	29	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
31	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	29	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
32	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	29	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **bound** | participle |  | the good steed *not said here* |  |  |  | forward *property* | vn run-51.3.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **cry out** *speech: express* | past | the good steed |  |  |  |  | all men of France *nsubj* | vn manner\_speaking-37.3 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 3 | **is a** *in a quote* | present | a brave man | our King |  |  |  | our *nmod:poss* | tree rules |
| 4 | **fail** *in a quote* | future | one of us | steed |  |  |  |  | vn succeed-74-3-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Eventuality |

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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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