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title: Now it shall be seen how these said old knights shall stand up again… — Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of F… · tree and pragmatics
description: Now it shall be seen how these said old knights shall stand up against this heathen man, for indeed of the younger no one will go forth against him." Who acts: these, old knights, one. A sentence of «Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France» by Alfred John Church, How Fierabras Defied K
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# Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France, How Fierabras Defied King Charles, sentence 27

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Now it shall be seen how these said old knights shall stand up against this heathen man, for indeed of the younger no one will go forth against him."

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**Who acts:** these, old knights, one · **What happens:** see, say, stand up, go · **To what, where:** comrade · **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 (these, old knights, one), 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:pg75339:16:27
# text = Now it shall be seen how these said old knights shall stand up against this heathen man, for indeed of the younger no one will go forth against him."
1	Now	now	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	5	advmod	_	_
2	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	5	nsubj:pass	_	_
3	shall	shall	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	5	aux	_	_
4	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	5	aux:pass	_	_
5	seen	see	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
6	how	how	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	8	advmod	_	_
7	these	this	PRON	DT	Number=Plur|PronType=Dem	8	nsubj	_	_
8	said	say	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	advcl	_	_
9	old	old	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	10	amod	_	_
10	knights	knight	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	12	nsubj	_	_
11	shall	shall	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	12	aux	_	_
12	stand	stand	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	8	ccomp	_	_
13	up	up	ADP	RP	_	12	compound:prt	_	_
14	against	against	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
15	this	this	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	17	det	_	_
16	heathen	heathen	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	17	amod	_	_
17	man	man	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	27	punct	_	_
19	for	for	SCONJ	IN	_	27	mark	_	_
20	indeed	indeed	ADV	RB	_	27	advmod	_	_
21	of	of	SCONJ	IN	_	27	mark	_	_
22	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	23	det	_	_
23	younger	young	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	27	advcl	_	_
24	no	no	DET	DT	PronType=Neg	25	det	_	_
25	one	one	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	27	nsubj	_	_
26	will	will	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	27	aux	_	_
27	go	go	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	12	conj	_	_
28	forth	forth	ADV	RB	_	27	advmod	_	_
29	against	against	ADP	IN	_	30	case	_	_
30	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	27	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
31	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
32	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **see** | shall · passive |  | comrade |  |  | now |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Stimulus |
| 2 | **say** *speech: assert* | past | these |  |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 3 | **stand up** | shall | old knights |  |  |  |  | against this heathen man | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent against man=Location |
| 4 | **go** | future | no one |  |  |  |  | against knight; forth, indeed *property* | vn occur-48.3-2 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme against he=Location |

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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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