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title: As for Reynaud he was in no peril, for his horse Bayard was as swift… — Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of F… · tree and pragmatics
description: As for Reynaud he was in no peril, for his horse Bayard was as swift as the wind, but with the others it went hard. Who acts: Reynaud, Bayard, wind. A sentence of «Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France» by Alfred John Church, How It Fared With the Brethren, with its dependency tree a
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# Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France, How It Fared With the Brethren, sentence 20

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As for Reynaud he was in no peril, for his horse Bayard was as swift as the wind, but with the others it went hard.

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**Who acts:** Reynaud, Bayard, wind · **What happens:** be, go · **To what, where:** peril, horse

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This is a sentence of «Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France» by Alfred John Church, How It Fared With the Brethren. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Reynaud, Bayard, wind), 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:pg75339:5:20
# text = As for Reynaud he was in no peril, for his horse Bayard was as swift as the wind, but with the others it went hard.
1	As	as	ADP	IN	_	3	case	_	_
2	for	for	ADP	IN	_	3	case	_	_
3	Reynaud	Reynaud	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	8	obl	_	_
4	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	8	nsubj	_	_
5	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	8	cop	_	_
6	in	in	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
7	no	no	DET	DT	PronType=Neg	8	det	_	_
8	peril	peril	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
10	for	for	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
11	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	12	nmod:poss	_	_
12	horse	horse	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	conj	_	_
13	Bayard	Bayard	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	16	nsubj	_	_
14	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	16	cop	_	_
15	as	as	ADV	RB	_	16	advmod	_	_
16	swift	swift	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	12	acl:relcl	_	_
17	as	as	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
18	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	19	det	_	_
19	wind	wind	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	26	punct	_	_
21	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	26	cc	_	_
22	with	with	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	_
23	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	24	det	_	_
24	others	other	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	26	obl	_	_
25	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	26	nsubj	_	_
26	went	go	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	8	conj	_	_
27	hard	hard	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	26	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	8	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | past | Reynaud |  |  | no peril and Reynaud's horse |  | as Reynaud; Reynaud's horse *conj* | tree rules |
| 2 | **is** | past | Bayard | Reynaud's horse *not said here* |  |  |  | as the wind; swift *property* | tree rules |
| 3 | **go** | past | wind |  |  |  |  | with the others; hard *property* | vn help-72.1-2 «NP V PP.beneficiary»: agent=Agent with other=Beneficiary |

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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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