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title: Then Reynaud cried after him, "Come back if you will and fetch your… — Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of F… · tree and pragmatics
description: Then Reynaud cried after him, "Come back if you will and fetch your saddle," for the girths had been broken when the two jousted together, "and I will greet you in such a place that Charlemagne with all his men could not help you." Who acts: Reynaud, two, men. A sentence of «Stories of Charlemagne a
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# Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France, Of the Treachery of King John, sentence 128

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Then Reynaud cried after him, "Come back if you will and fetch your saddle," for the girths had been broken when the two jousted together, "and I will greet you in such a place that Charlemagne with all his men could not help you."

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**Who acts:** Reynaud, two, men · **What happens:** cry, come back, fetch, break, joust, greet · **To what, where:** saddle, girths, you, place · **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, Of the Treachery of King John. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Reynaud, two, men), 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:pg75339:7:128
# text = Then Reynaud cried after him, "Come back if you will and fetch your saddle," for the girths had been broken when the two jousted together, "and I will greet you in such a place that Charlemagne with all his men could not help you."
1	Then	then	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	3	advmod	_	_
2	Reynaud	Reynaud	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
3	cried	cry	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	after	after	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
5	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	8	punct	_	_
7	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	8	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	Come	come	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	3	conj	_	_
9	back	back	ADV	RB	_	8	advmod	_	_
10	if	if	SCONJ	IN	_	12	mark	_	_
11	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	12	nsubj	_	_
12	will	will	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	8	advcl	_	_
13	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	14	cc	_	_
14	fetch	fetch	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	8	conj	_	_
15	your	your	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	16	nmod:poss	_	_
16	saddle	saddle	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	3	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	3	punct	_	_
19	for	for	SCONJ	IN	_	24	mark	_	_
20	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	21	det	_	_
21	girths	girth	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	24	nsubj:pass	_	_
22	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	24	aux	_	_
23	been	be	AUX	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	24	aux:pass	_	_
24	broken	break	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	3	ccomp	_	_
25	when	when	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	28	advmod	_	_
26	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	27	det	_	_
27	two	two	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	28	nsubj	_	_
28	jousted	joust	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	24	advcl	_	_
29	together	together	ADV	RB	_	28	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
30	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	3	punct	_	_
31	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	3	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
32	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	35	cc	_	_
33	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	35	nsubj	_	_
34	will	will	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	35	aux	_	_
35	greet	greet	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	3	conj	_	_
36	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Person=2|PronType=Prs	35	obj	_	_
37	in	in	ADP	IN	_	40	case	_	_
38	such	such	DET	PDT	PronType=Ind	40	det:predet	_	_
39	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	40	det	_	_
40	place	place	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	35	obl	_	_
41	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	42	nsubj	_	_
42	Charlemagne	Charlemagne	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	40	appos	_	_
43	with	with	SCONJ	IN	_	49	mark	_	_
44	all	all	DET	PDT	PronType=Tot	46	det:predet	_	_
45	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	46	nmod:poss	_	_
46	men	man	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	49	nsubj	_	_
47	could	could	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	49	aux	_	_
48	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	49	advmod	_	_
49	help	help	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	35	advcl	_	_
50	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Person=2|PronType=Prs	49	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
51	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
52	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **cry** *speech: express* | past | Reynaud |  |  |  | after Ogier; then |  | vn manner\_speaking-37.3 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 2 | **come back** *in a quote* | infinitive | Reynaud *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 3 | **fetch** *in a quote* | infinitive | Reynaud *not said here* | your saddle |  |  |  |  | vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent saddle=Theme |
| 4 | **break** | past · perfect · passive |  | the girths |  |  |  |  | vn hurt-40.8.3-1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient |
| 5 | **joust** | participle | the two |  |  |  |  | together *property* | vn battle-36.4 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 6 | **greet** *speech: greet* *in a quote* | future | Reynaud |  | you | such place |  |  | vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent you=Theme |
| 7 | **not** **help** *in a quote* | could | Ogier's men |  | you |  |  |  | vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent you=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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