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title: This done, he cried to the King, "Send now Roland or Oliver to fight… — Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of F… · tree and pragmatics
description: This done, he cried to the King, "Send now Roland or Oliver to fight with me. Who acts: man. A sentence of «Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France» by Alfred John Church, How Fierabras Defied King Charles, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France, How Fierabras Defied King Charles, sentence 12

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This done, he cried to the King, "Send now Roland or Oliver to fight with me.

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**Who acts:** man · **What happens:** do, cry, send, fight · **To what, where:** This, King, Roland · **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 Fierabras Defied King Charles. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (man), 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:pg75339:16:12
# text = This done, he cried to the King, "Send now Roland or Oliver to fight with me.
1	This	this	PRON	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	2	nsubj:pass	_	_
2	done	do	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	5	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	2	punct	_	_
4	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	5	nsubj	_	_
5	cried	cry	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
6	to	to	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	King	King	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	5	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
10	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	11	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	Send	send	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	5	conj	_	_
12	now	now	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	13	advmod	_	_
13	Roland	Roland	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	11	obl	_	_
14	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	15	cc	_	_
15	Oliver	Oliver	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	13	conj	_	_
16	to	to	PART	TO	_	17	mark	_	_
17	fight	fight	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	11	advcl	_	_
18	with	with	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
19	me	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	17	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **do** | participle · passive |  | This |  |  |  |  | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Eventuality |
| 2 | **cry** *speech: express* | past | man |  | the King |  |  |  | vn manner\_speaking-37.3 «NP V PP.recipient»: agent=Agent to king=Recipient |
| 3 | **send** *in a quote* | infinitive | man *not said here* | Roland or Oliver |  |  |  |  | vn confine-92-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
| 4 | **fight** *in a quote* | to-infinitive | man *not said here* |  |  |  |  | with man | vn battle-36.4-1 «NP V PP.co-agent»: agent=Agent with i=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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