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# Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France, How Fierabras Defied King Charles, sentence 23

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Thereupon he turned to Roland and said, "I pray you, dear nephew, go forth and meet this Turk in battle."

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**Who acts:** King · **What happens:** turn, say, pray, go, meet · **To what, where:** Roland, you, Turk, battle · **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 (King), 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:pg75339:16:23
# text = Thereupon he turned to Roland and said, "I pray you, dear nephew, go forth and meet this Turk in battle."
1	Thereupon	thereupon	ADV	RB	_	3	advmod	_	_
2	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
3	turned	turn	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	to	to	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
5	Roland	Roland	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	_
6	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	7	cc	_	_
7	said	say	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
9	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	11	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	11	nsubj	_	_
11	pray	pray	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	7	ccomp	_	_
12	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Person=2|PronType=Prs	11	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
14	dear	dear	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	15	amod	_	_
15	nephew	nephew	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	_
17	go	go	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	11	conj	_	_
18	forth	forth	ADV	RB	_	17	advmod	_	_
19	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	20	cc	_	_
20	meet	meet	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	17	conj	_	_
21	this	this	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	22	det	_	_
22	Turk	Turk	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	20	obj	_	_
23	in	in	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	_
24	battle	battle	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **turn** | past | King |  | Roland |  |  | thereupon *property* | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V PP.result»: agent=Theme to roland=Result |
| 2 | **say** *speech: assert* | past | King *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 3 | **pray** *in a quote* | present | King | you |  |  |  | dear nephew *obl* | tree rules |
| 4 | **go** *in a quote* | infinitive | King *not said here* |  |  |  |  | forth *property* | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 5 | **meet** *in a quote* | infinitive | King *not said here* | this Turk |  | battle |  |  | vn meet-36.3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent turk=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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