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title: No man answering him or coming forth, he fell into a great rage and… — Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of F… · tree and pragmatics
description: No man answering him or coming forth, he fell into a great rage and sware by his god Mahomet that he would not depart from the place till he should have done battle with some Christian man; but still no one came forth to him. Who acts: man, one. A sentence of «Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve P
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# Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France, How Fierabras Defied King Charles, sentence 6

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No man answering him or coming forth, he fell into a great rage and sware by his god Mahomet that he would not depart from the place till he should have done battle with some Christian man; but still no one came forth to him.

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**Who acts:** man, one · **What happens:** answer, come, fall, not depart, do · **To what, where:** man, great rage, place, battle

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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 (man, 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:pg75339:16:6
# text = No man answering him or coming forth, he fell into a great rage and sware by his god Mahomet that he would not depart from the place till he should have done battle with some Christian man; but still no one came forth to him.
1	No	no	DET	DT	PronType=Neg	2	det	_	_
2	man	man	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	nsubj	_	_
3	answering	answer	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	2	acl	_	_
4	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	obj	_	_
5	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	6	cc	_	_
6	coming	come	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	3	conj	_	_
7	forth	forth	ADV	RB	_	6	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	2	punct	_	_
9	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	10	nsubj	_	_
10	fell	fall	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
11	into	into	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
12	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
13	great	great	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	14	amod	_	_
14	rage	rage	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obl	_	_
15	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	16	cc	_	_
16	sware	sware	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	conj	_	_
17	by	by	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
18	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	20	nmod:poss	_	_
19	god	god	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	compound	_	_
20	Mahomet	mahomet	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obl	_	_
21	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	25	mark	_	_
22	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	25	nsubj	_	_
23	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	25	aux	_	_
24	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	25	advmod	_	_
25	depart	depart	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	10	advcl	_	_
26	from	from	ADP	IN	_	28	case	_	_
27	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	28	det	_	_
28	place	place	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	obl	_	_
29	till	till	SCONJ	IN	_	33	mark	_	_
30	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	33	nsubj	_	_
31	should	should	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	33	aux	_	_
32	have	have	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	33	aux	_	_
33	done	do	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	25	advcl	_	_
34	battle	battle	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	33	obj	_	_
35	with	with	ADP	IN	_	38	case	_	_
36	some	some	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	38	det	_	_
37	Christian	Christian	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	38	amod	_	_
38	man	man	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	34	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
39	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	44	punct	_	_
40	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	44	cc	_	_
41	still	still	ADV	RB	_	44	advmod	_	_
42	no	no	DET	DT	PronType=Neg	43	det	_	_
43	one	one	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	44	nsubj	_	_
44	came	come	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	10	conj	_	_
45	forth	forth	ADV	RB	_	44	advmod	_	_
46	to	to	ADP	IN	_	47	case	_	_
47	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	44	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
48	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	10	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **answer** *speech: assert* | gerund | no man *not said here* |  | man |  |  |  | vn reciprocate-112-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent he=Eventuality |
| 2 | **come** | gerund | no man *not said here* |  |  |  |  | forth *property* | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 3 | **fall** | past | no man |  |  | a great rage and sware |  | by man's god Mahomet | vn occur-48.3 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme by mahomet=Location |
| 4 | **not** **depart** | would | man |  |  | the place |  |  | vn escape-51.1-1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme from place=Initial\_Location |
| 5 | **do** | should · perfect | man | battle |  |  |  | with some Christian man | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent battle=Eventuality |
| 6 | **come** | past | no one |  | man |  | still | forth *property* | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme to he=Initial\_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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