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# Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France, How Fierabras Defied King Charles, sentence 25

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Do you bear in mind what happened but yesterday, when we were so near to being taken by the heathen, how they fell upon us with fifty thousand men and how we the younger knights bore the burden and brunt of the day and suffered many grievous wounds, so that Oliver my comrade was brought near to death, and indeed, but for your help, we had all perished?

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**Who acts:** you, we, heathen, others, your · **What happens:** bear, happen, be, take, fall, suffer · **To what, where:** mind, burden, many grievous wounds, Oliver comrade, death, we

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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 (you, we, heathen, others), 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:pg75339:16:25
# text = Do you bear in mind what happened but yesterday, when we were so near to being taken by the heathen, how they fell upon us with fifty thousand men and how we the younger knights bore the burden and brunt of the day and suffered many grievous wounds, so that Oliver my comrade was brought near to death, and indeed, but for your help, we had all perished?
1	Do	do	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	3	aux	_	_
2	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
3	bear	bear	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
4	in	in	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
5	mind	mind	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	_
6	what	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	7	nsubj	_	_
7	happened	happen	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	ccomp	_	_
8	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	9	cc	_	_
9	yesterday	yesterday	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
11	when	when	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	15	advmod	_	_
12	we	we	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs	15	nsubj	_	_
13	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	15	cop	_	_
14	so	so	ADV	RB	_	15	advmod	_	_
15	near	near	ADV	RB	_	3	advmod	_	_
16	to	to	SCONJ	IN	_	18	mark	_	_
17	being	be	AUX	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	18	aux:pass	_	_
18	taken	take	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	15	advcl	_	_
19	by	by	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
20	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	21	det	_	_
21	heathen	heathen	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	25	punct	_	_
23	how	how	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	25	advmod	_	_
24	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	25	nsubj	_	_
25	fell	fall	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	21	acl:relcl	_	_
26	upon	upon	ADP	IN	_	27	case	_	_
27	us	we	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs	25	obl	_	_
28	with	with	ADP	IN	_	31	case	_	_
29	fifty	fifty	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	30	compound	_	_
30	thousand	thousand	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	31	nummod	_	_
31	men	man	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	25	obl	_	_
32	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	38	cc	_	_
33	how	how	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	38	advmod	_	_
34	we	we	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs	38	nsubj	_	_
35	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	37	det	_	_
36	younger	young	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	37	amod	_	_
37	knights	knight	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	38	nsubj	_	_
38	bore	bear	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	31	conj	_	_
39	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	40	det	_	_
40	burden	burden	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	38	obj	_	_
41	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	42	cc	_	_
42	brunt	brunt	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	40	conj	_	_
43	of	of	ADP	IN	_	45	case	_	_
44	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	45	det	_	_
45	day	day	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	42	nmod	_	_
46	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	47	cc	_	_
47	suffered	suffer	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	38	conj	_	_
48	many	many	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	50	amod	_	_
49	grievous	grievous	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	50	amod	_	_
50	wounds	wound	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	47	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
51	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	58	punct	_	_
52	so	so	SCONJ	IN	ExtPos=SCONJ	58	mark	_	_
53	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	52	fixed	_	_
54	Oliver	Oliver	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	56	compound	_	_
55	my	my	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	56	nmod:poss	_	_
56	comrade	comrade	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	58	nsubj:pass	_	_
57	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	58	aux:pass	_	_
58	brought	bring	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	38	conj	_	_
59	near	near	ADP	IN	_	61	case	_	_
60	to	to	ADP	IN	_	61	case	_	_
61	death	death	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	58	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
62	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	64	punct	_	_
63	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	64	cc	_	_
64	indeed	indeed	ADV	RB	_	58	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
65	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	74	punct	_	_
66	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	74	cc	_	_
67	for	for	ADP	IN	_	69	case	_	_
68	your	your	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	69	nmod:poss	_	_
69	help	help	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	74	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
70	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	69	punct	_	_
71	we	we	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs	74	nsubj:pass	_	_
72	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	74	aux	_	_
73	all	all	ADV	RB	_	74	advmod	_	_
74	perished	perish	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	58	parataxis	_	SpaceAfter=No
75	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **bear** | present · do-support | you |  |  | mind |  |  | vn admire-31.2 «NP V that S»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus |
| 2 | **happen** | past |  |  |  |  |  | what *nsubj* | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 3 | **is** | past | we |  |  |  |  | near *property* | tree rules |
| 4 | **take** | gerund · passive | the heathen |  |  |  |  |  | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
| 5 | **fall** | past | others *= other* |  |  |  |  | upon us; with thousand men | vn occur-48.3 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme upon we=Location |
| 6 | **bear** | past | we | the burden and brunt of the day |  |  |  | the younger knights *nsubj* | vn birth-28.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent burden=Patient |
| 7 | **suffer** | past | we *not said here* | many grievous wounds |  |  |  |  | vn admire-31.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer wound=Stimulus |
| 8 | **bring** | past · passive |  | my Oliver comrade |  | death |  | indeed *property* | vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP together»: subject=Theme |
| 9 | **perish** | past · perfect · passive |  | we |  |  |  | for your help; all *property* | tree rules |
| 10 | **help** |  | your |  |  |  |  |  | nom help «act transitive»: poss=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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