--- title: After a while there came to King Charles a certain knight, Herneger… — Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of F… · tree and pragmatics description: After a while there came to King Charles a certain knight, Herneger by name, who said, "Sire, if you will give me this castle of Montanford for my own, and all the goods that are within, and the land about it for five miles, I will deliver to you Reynaud and his brothers within the space of a month --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg75339/5/65/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [tales](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/) / [Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve…](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg75339/) / [How It Fared With the Brethren](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg75339/5/) / 65 # Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France, How It Fared With the Brethren, sentence 65 After a while there came to King Charles a certain knight, Herneger by name, who said, "Sire, if you will give me this castle of Montanford for my own, and all the goods that are within, and the land about it for five miles, I will deliver to you Reynaud and his brothers within the space of a month from now." " **Who acts:** goods, name, you · **What happens:** come, say, give, deliver · **To what, where:** land, Charles, castle, name, Reynaud, you · **Speech:** someone speaks here 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 (goods, name, you), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. **Mova's own parse.** This tree may be wrong. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = book:pg75339:5:65 # text = After a while there came to King Charles a certain knight, Herneger by name, who said, "Sire, if you will give me this castle of Montanford for my own, and all the goods that are within, and the land about it for five miles, I will deliver to you Reynaud and his brothers within the space of a month from now." " 1 After after ADP IN _ 3 case _ _ 2 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 3 det _ _ 3 while while NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 obl _ _ 4 there there ADV RB PronType=Dem 5 advmod _ _ 5 came come VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 6 to to ADP IN _ 8 case _ _ 7 King King PROPN NNP Number=Sing 8 nmod:desc _ _ 8 Charles Charles PROPN NNP Number=Sing 5 obl _ _ 9 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 11 det _ _ 10 certain certain ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 11 amod _ _ 11 knight knight NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 advcl _ SpaceAfter=No 12 , , PUNCT , _ 13 punct _ _ 13 Herneger Herneger PROPN NNP Number=Sing 11 appos _ _ 14 by by ADP IN _ 15 case _ _ 15 name name NOUN NN Number=Sing 13 nmod _ SpaceAfter=No 16 , , PUNCT , _ 18 punct _ _ 17 who who PRON WP PronType=Rel 18 nsubj _ _ 18 said say VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 15 acl:relcl _ SpaceAfter=No 19 , , PUNCT , _ 21 punct _ _ 20 " " PUNCT `` _ 21 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 21 Sire sire NOUN NN Number=Sing 18 nsubj _ SpaceAfter=No 22 , , PUNCT , _ 26 punct _ _ 23 if if SCONJ IN _ 26 mark _ _ 24 you you PRON PRP Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs 26 nsubj _ _ 25 will will AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 26 aux _ _ 26 give give VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 5 conj _ _ 27 me I PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 26 iobj _ _ 28 this this DET DT Number=Sing|PronType=Dem 29 det _ _ 29 castle castle NOUN NN Number=Sing 26 obj _ _ 30 of of ADP IN _ 31 case _ _ 31 Montanford Montanford PROPN NNP Number=Sing 29 nmod _ _ 32 for for ADP IN _ 34 case _ _ 33 my my PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 34 nmod:poss _ _ 34 own own ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 26 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 35 , , PUNCT , _ 39 punct _ _ 36 and and CCONJ CC _ 39 cc _ _ 37 all all DET PDT PronType=Tot 39 det:predet _ _ 38 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 39 det _ _ 39 goods goods NOUN NNS Number=Ptan 5 nsubj _ _ 40 that that PRON WDT PronType=Rel 42 nsubj _ _ 41 are be AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 42 cop _ _ 42 within within ADP IN _ 39 acl:relcl _ SpaceAfter=No 43 , , PUNCT , _ 46 punct _ _ 44 and and CCONJ CC _ 46 cc _ _ 45 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 46 det _ _ 46 land land NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 obl _ _ 47 about about ADP IN _ 48 case _ _ 48 it it PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 46 nmod _ _ 49 for for ADP IN _ 51 case _ _ 50 five five NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 51 nummod _ _ 51 miles mile NOUN NNS Number=Plur 5 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 52 , , PUNCT , _ 55 punct _ _ 53 I I PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 55 nsubj _ _ 54 will will AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 55 aux _ _ 55 deliver deliver VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 5 parataxis _ _ 56 to to ADP IN _ 57 case _ _ 57 you you PRON PRP Case=Acc|Person=2|PronType=Prs 55 obl _ _ 58 Reynaud Reynaud PROPN NNP Number=Sing 55 obj _ _ 59 and and CCONJ CC _ 61 cc _ _ 60 his his PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 61 nmod:poss _ _ 61 brothers brother NOUN NNS Number=Plur 58 conj _ _ 62 within within ADP IN _ 64 case _ _ 63 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 64 det _ _ 64 space space NOUN NN Number=Sing 55 obl _ _ 65 of of ADP IN _ 67 case _ _ 66 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 67 det _ _ 67 month month NOUN NN Number=Sing 64 nmod _ _ 68 from from ADP IN _ 69 case _ _ 69 now now ADV RB PronType=Dem 55 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 70 . . PUNCT . _ 55 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 71 " " PUNCT '' _ 55 punct _ _ 72 " " PUNCT '' _ 5 punct _ SpaceAfter=No ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **come** | past | all goods | the land about castle | Charles King | there | while | for five miles; a certain knight *advcl* | tree rules | | 2 | **say** *speech: assert* | past | name | | | | | Sire *nsubj* | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | | 3 | **give** *a condition, not said to happen, in a quote* | future | you | this castle of Montanford | name | | | for my own | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP NP PP.asset»: agent=Agent i=Recipient castle=Theme for own=Asset | | 4 | **deliver** *in a quote* | future | name | Reynaud and King's brothers | you | | | within the space of a month | vn send-11.1 «NP V NP PP.initial\_location PP.destination»: agent=Agent reynaud=Theme to you=Destination from now=Initial\_Location | 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. **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. - ← previous: [sentence 64](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg75339/5/64/) - next →: [sentence 66](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg75339/5/66/) - ↑ back to [How It Fared With the Brethren](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg75339/5/)