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title: When the other knights heard this they were not a little shamed that… — Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of F… · tree and pragmatics
description: When the other knights heard this they were not a little shamed that a wounded man should take up the challenge, while they themselves held back. " Who acts: other knights, wounded man, Oliver. A sentence of «Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France» by Alfred John Church, How Fierabras
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# Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France, How Fierabras Defied King Charles, sentence 59

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When the other knights heard this they were not a little shamed that a wounded man should take up the challenge, while they themselves held back. "

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**Who acts:** other knights, wounded man, Oliver · **What happens:** hear, not shame, take up, hold back · **To what, where:** this, Oliver, challenge · **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 (other knights, wounded man, Oliver), 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:pg75339:16:59
# text = When the other knights heard this they were not a little shamed that a wounded man should take up the challenge, while they themselves held back. "
1	When	when	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	5	advmod	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
3	other	other	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	amod	_	_
4	knights	knight	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	nsubj	_	_
5	heard	hear	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
6	this	this	PRON	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	5	obj	_	_
7	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	12	nsubj:pass	_	_
8	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	12	aux:pass	_	_
9	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	12	advmod	_	_
10	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
11	little	little	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	12	obl:unmarked	_	_
12	shamed	shame	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	5	ccomp	_	_
13	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	18	mark	_	_
14	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
15	wounded	wounded	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	16	amod	_	_
16	man	man	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	nsubj	_	_
17	should	should	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	18	aux	_	_
18	take	take	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	12	advcl	_	_
19	up	up	ADP	RP	_	18	compound:prt	_	_
20	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	21	det	_	_
21	challenge	challenge	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	26	punct	_	_
23	while	while	SCONJ	IN	_	26	mark	_	_
24	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	26	nsubj	_	_
25	themselves	themselves	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Emp|Reflex=Yes	24	nmod:unmarked	_	_
26	held	hold	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	12	conj	_	_
27	back	back	ADV	RB	_	26	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
29	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	5	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **hear** | past | the other knights | this |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **not** **shame** | past · passive |  | Oliver |  |  |  | a little *obl:unmarked* | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: subject=Experiencer |
| 3 | **take up** | should | a wounded man | the challenge |  |  |  |  | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent challenge=Theme |
| 4 | **hold back** | past | Oliver |  |  |  |  |  | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |

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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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