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title: Roland went to the King and said, "The brethren have taken Duke Rich… — Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of F… · tree and pragmatics
description: Roland went to the King and said, "The brethren have taken Duke Richard; lest, therefore, he come to any harm, offer conditions of peace. Who acts: Roland, brethren. A sentence of «Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France» by Alfred John Church, How Peace Was Made, with its dependency t
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# Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France, How Peace Was Made, sentence 49

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Roland went to the King and said, "The brethren have taken Duke Richard; lest, therefore, he come to any harm, offer conditions of peace.

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**Who acts:** Roland, brethren · **What happens:** go, say, take, come, offer, condition · **To what, where:** brethren, harm, conditions, peace · **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 Peace Was Made. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Roland, brethren), 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:pg75339:12:49
# text = Roland went to the King and said, "The brethren have taken Duke Richard; lest, therefore, he come to any harm, offer conditions of peace.
1	Roland	Roland	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	nsubj	_	_
2	went	go	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	to	to	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	King	King	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	obl	_	_
6	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	7	cc	_	_
7	said	say	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	2	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
9	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	13	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
11	brethren	brethren	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	13	nsubj:pass	_	_
12	have	have	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	13	aux	_	_
13	taken	take	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	7	ccomp	_	_
14	Duke	Duke	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	13	obj	_	_
15	Richard	Richard	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	14	flat	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	22	punct	_	_
17	lest	lest	SCONJ	IN	_	22	mark	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	_
19	therefore	therefore	ADV	RB	_	22	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	19	punct	_	_
21	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	22	nsubj	_	_
22	come	come	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	7	parataxis	_	_
23	to	to	ADP	IN	_	25	case	_	_
24	any	any	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	25	det	_	_
25	harm	harm	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	27	punct	_	_
27	offer	offer	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	22	conj	_	_
28	conditions	condition	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	27	obj	_	_
29	of	of	ADP	IN	_	30	case	_	_
30	peace	peace	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	28	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
31	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **go** | past | Roland |  |  |  |  | to the King | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme to king=Initial\_Location |
| 2 | **say** *speech: assert* | past | Roland *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 3 | **take** *in a quote* | present · perfect · passive |  | the brethren |  |  |  | Duke *obj* | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP ADVP»: subject=Theme duke=Destination |
| 4 | **come** *in a quote* | infinitive | brethren |  |  | any harm |  | therefore *property* | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme to harm=Initial\_Location |
| 5 | **offer** *in a quote* | infinitive | brethren *not said here* | conditions of peace |  |  |  |  | vn future\_having-13.3 «NP V NP.theme (PP)»: agent=Agent condition=Theme |
| 6 | **condition** *in a quote* |  |  | peace |  |  |  |  | nom condition «state transitive»: of=patient |

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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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