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title: Then the King rode away, nor had he travelled long when Roland and O… — Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of F… · tree and pragmatics
description: Then the King rode away, nor had he travelled long when Roland and Oliver, with a thousand men after them, met him. Who acts: King, Roland. A sentence of «Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France» by Alfred John Church, How Ralph Entertained the King, with its dependency tree and the pr
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# Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France, How Ralph Entertained the King, sentence 78

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Then the King rode away, nor had he travelled long when Roland and Oliver, with a thousand men after them, met him.

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**Who acts:** King, Roland · **What happens:** ride away, have, travel, meet · **To what, where:** King

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This is a sentence of «Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France» by Alfred John Church, How Ralph Entertained the King. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (King, 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:pg75339:14:78
# text = Then the King rode away, nor had he travelled long when Roland and Oliver, with a thousand men after them, met him.
1	Then	then	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	4	advmod	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	King	King	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
4	rode	ride	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	away	away	ADV	RB	_	4	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	8	punct	_	_
7	nor	nor	CCONJ	CC	Polarity=Neg	8	cc	_	_
8	had	have	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	conj	_	_
9	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	10	nsubj	_	_
10	travelled	travel	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	8	ccomp	_	_
11	long	long	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	10	advmod	_	_
12	when	when	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	24	advmod	_	_
13	Roland	Roland	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	24	nsubj	_	_
14	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	15	cc	_	_
15	Oliver	Oliver	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	13	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	20	punct	_	_
17	with	with	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
18	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	19	det	_	_
19	thousand	thousand	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	20	nummod	_	_
20	men	man	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	13	appos	_	_
21	after	after	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
22	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	20	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	24	punct	_	_
24	met	meet	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	10	advcl	_	_
25	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	24	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **ride away** | past | the King |  |  |  | then | away *property* | vn nonvehicle-51.4.2 «NP.agent V»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **have** | past | the King *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **travel** | past | King |  |  |  |  | long *property* | vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 4 | **meet** | past | Roland and Oliver | King |  |  |  |  | vn meet-36.3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Co-Agent |

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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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