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title: When Reynaud had spoken these words, he spurred Bayard and charged R… — Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of F… · tree and pragmatics
description: When Reynaud had spoken these words, he spurred Bayard and charged Roland, and Roland also charged from his side. Who acts: Reynaud, Roland. A sentence of «Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France» by Alfred John Church, How Mawgis Became a Hermit, with its dependency tree and the pragm
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# Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France, How Mawgis Became a Hermit, sentence 14

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When Reynaud had spoken these words, he spurred Bayard and charged Roland, and Roland also charged from his side.

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**Who acts:** Reynaud, Roland · **What happens:** speak, spur, charge · **To what, where:** Reynaud, Bayard, Roland, side · **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 Mawgis Became a Hermit. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Reynaud, Roland), 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:pg75339:10:14
# text = When Reynaud had spoken these words, he spurred Bayard and charged Roland, and Roland also charged from his side.
1	When	when	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	4	advmod	_	_
2	Reynaud	Reynaud	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	nsubj:pass	_	_
3	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	aux	_	_
4	spoken	speak	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	9	advcl	_	_
5	these	this	DET	DT	Number=Plur|PronType=Dem	6	det	_	_
6	words	word	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	4	punct	_	_
8	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	9	nsubj	_	_
9	spurred	spur	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
10	Bayard	Bayard	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	9	obj	_	_
11	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	12	cc	_	_
12	charged	charge	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	9	conj	_	_
13	Roland	Roland	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	12	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	_
15	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	18	cc	_	_
16	Roland	Roland	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	18	nsubj	_	_
17	also	also	ADV	RB	_	18	advmod	_	_
18	charged	charge	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	9	conj	_	_
19	from	from	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
20	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	21	nmod:poss	_	_
21	side	side	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	9	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **speak** *speech: other* | past · perfect · passive |  | Reynaud |  |  |  | this words *obj* | tree rules |
| 2 | **spur** | past | Reynaud | Bayard |  |  |  |  | vn stimulate-59.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent bayard=Patient |
| 3 | **charge** | past | Reynaud *not said here* | Roland |  |  |  |  | vn run-51.3.2 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Initial\_Location roland=Theme |
| 4 | **charge** | past | Roland |  |  | Reynaud's side |  |  | vn run-51.3.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme from side=Trajectory |

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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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