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title: First Roland my nephew, that should have been zealous to help me, th… — Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of F… · tree and pragmatics
description: First Roland my nephew, that should have been zealous to help me, threatens to slay me, and then there is no man that is willing to do battle with this pagan." Who acts: that, Roland, man. A sentence of «Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France» by Alfred John Church, How Fierabras Defi
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# Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France, How Fierabras Defied King Charles, sentence 38

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First Roland my nephew, that should have been zealous to help me, threatens to slay me, and then there is no man that is willing to do battle with this pagan."

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**Who acts:** that, Roland, man · **What happens:** be, help, threaten, slay, do, battle · **To what, where:** me

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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 (that, Roland, 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:pg75339:16:38
# text = First Roland my nephew, that should have been zealous to help me, threatens to slay me, and then there is no man that is willing to do battle with this pagan."
1	First	first	ADV	RB	NumForm=Word|NumType=Ord	2	advmod	_	_
2	Roland	Roland	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	15	nsubj	_	_
3	my	my	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	4	nmod:poss	_	_
4	nephew	nephew	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	appos	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
6	that	that	PRON	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	10	nsubj	_	_
7	should	should	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	10	aux	_	_
8	have	have	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	10	aux	_	_
9	been	be	AUX	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	10	cop	_	_
10	zealous	zealous	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	2	conj	_	_
11	to	to	PART	TO	_	12	mark	_	_
12	help	help	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	10	advcl	_	_
13	me	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	12	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	2	punct	_	_
15	threatens	threaten	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
16	to	to	PART	TO	_	17	mark	_	_
17	slay	slay	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	15	xcomp	_	_
18	me	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	17	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	23	punct	_	_
20	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	23	cc	_	_
21	then	then	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	23	advmod	_	_
22	there	there	PRON	EX	PronType=Dem	23	expl	_	_
23	is	be	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	15	conj	_	_
24	no	no	DET	DT	PronType=Neg	25	det	_	_
25	man	man	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	nsubj	_	_
26	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	28	nsubj	_	_
27	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	28	cop	_	_
28	willing	willing	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	25	acl:relcl	_	_
29	to	to	PART	TO	_	30	mark	_	_
30	do	do	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	28	xcomp	_	_
31	battle	battle	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	30	xcomp	_	_
32	with	with	ADP	IN	_	34	case	_	_
33	this	this	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	34	det	_	_
34	pagan	pagan	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	31	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
35	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	15	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
36	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	15	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | should · perfect | that |  |  |  |  | zealous *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **help** | to-infinitive | that *not said here* |  | me |  |  |  | vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent i=Beneficiary |
| 3 | **threaten** | present | Roland |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 4 | **slay** *not said to happen* | to-infinitive | Roland *not said here* | me |  |  |  |  | vn murder-42.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent i=Patient |
| 5 | **be** | present | no man |  |  | there | then |  | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 6 | **is** | present | no man |  |  |  |  | willing *property* | tree rules |
| 7 | **do** | to-infinitive | no man *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 8 | **battle** | infinitive | no man *not said here* |  |  |  |  | with this pagan | vn battle-36.4-1 «NP V PP.co-agent»: agent=Agent with pagan=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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