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title: By this certain of the Peers mounted, Roland being first of all, and… — Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of F… · tree and pragmatics
description: By this certain of the Peers mounted, Roland being first of all, and after him Ogier the Dane and Oliver. Who acts: Peers. A sentence of «Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France» by Alfred John Church, How Peace Was Made, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France, How Peace Was Made, sentence 6

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By this certain of the Peers mounted, Roland being first of all, and after him Ogier the Dane and Oliver.

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**Who acts:** Peers · **What happens:** mount, be · **To what, where:** Roland

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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 (Peers), 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:pg75339:12:6
# text = By this certain of the Peers mounted, Roland being first of all, and after him Ogier the Dane and Oliver.
1	By	by	SCONJ	IN	_	3	mark	_	_
2	this	this	PRON	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	3	nsubj	_	_
3	certain	certain	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
4	of	of	SCONJ	IN	_	7	mark	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	Peers	Peer	PROPN	NNPS	Number=Plur	7	nsubj	_	_
7	mounted	mount	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	9	punct	_	_
9	Roland	Roland	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	7	obj	_	_
10	being	be	AUX	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	11	cop	_	_
11	first	first	ADV	RB	NumForm=Word|NumType=Ord	7	advmod	_	_
12	of	of	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
13	all	all	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	11	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	_
15	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	18	cc	_	_
16	after	after	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
17	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	18	nsubj	_	_
18	Ogier	Ogier	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	_
19	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	20	det	_	_
20	Dane	Dane	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	18	appos	_	_
21	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	22	cc	_	_
22	Oliver	Oliver	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	18	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **mount** | past | the Peers | Roland |  |  |  |  | vn establish-55.5-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent roland=Patient |
| 2 | **is** | gerund |  |  |  |  |  | of all; first *property* | tree rules |

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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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