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title: Then he cried with a very loud and terrible voice, "King of Paris, s… — Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of F… · tree and pragmatics
description: Then he cried with a very loud and terrible voice, "King of Paris, send out to me your strongest and bravest knight, be he Roland, or Oliver, or Thierry, or Ogier the Dane, that he may fight with me. Who acts: man. A sentence of «Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France» by Alfred John 
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# Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France, How Fierabras Defied King Charles, sentence 7

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Then he cried with a very loud and terrible voice, "King of Paris, send out to me your strongest and bravest knight, be he Roland, or Oliver, or Thierry, or Ogier the Dane, that he may fight with me.

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**Who acts:** man · **What happens:** cry, send out, be, fight · **To what, where:** King, strongest knight, man, Roland · **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 (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:pg75339:16:7
# text = Then he cried with a very loud and terrible voice, "King of Paris, send out to me your strongest and bravest knight, be he Roland, or Oliver, or Thierry, or Ogier the Dane, that he may fight with me.
1	Then	then	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	3	advmod	_	_
2	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
3	cried	cry	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	with	with	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
5	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
6	very	very	ADV	RB	_	7	advmod	_	_
7	loud	loud	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	10	amod	_	_
8	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	9	cc	_	_
9	terrible	terrible	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	conj	_	_
10	voice	voice	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
12	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	13	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	King	King	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	_
14	of	of	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
15	Paris	Paris	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	13	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	_
17	send	send	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	3	conj	_	_
18	out	out	ADP	RP	_	17	compound:prt	_	_
19	to	to	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
20	me	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	17	obl	_	_
21	your	your	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	25	nmod:poss	_	_
22	strongest	strong	ADJ	JJS	Degree=Sup	25	amod	_	_
23	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	24	cc	_	_
24	bravest	brave	ADJ	JJS	Degree=Sup	22	conj	_	_
25	knight	knight	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	29	punct	_	_
27	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	29	cop	_	_
28	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	29	nsubj	_	_
29	Roland	Roland	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	17	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
30	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	32	punct	_	_
31	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	32	cc	_	_
32	Oliver	Oliver	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
33	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	35	punct	_	_
34	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	35	cc	_	_
35	Thierry	Thierry	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	32	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
36	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	38	punct	_	_
37	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	38	cc	_	_
38	Ogier	Ogier	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	32	conj	_	_
39	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	40	det	_	_
40	Dane	Dane	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	38	appos	_	SpaceAfter=No
41	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	45	punct	_	_
42	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	45	mark	_	_
43	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	45	nsubj	_	_
44	may	may	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	45	aux	_	_
45	fight	fight	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	3	conj	_	_
46	with	with	ADP	IN	_	47	case	_	_
47	me	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	45	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
48	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **cry** *speech: express* | past | man | King of Paris |  |  | then | with a loud voice; Oliver or Thierry or Ogier *obl* | vn sound\_emission-43.2 «NP.location V PP.theme»: agent=Location with voice=Theme |
| 2 | **send out** *in a quote* | infinitive | man *not said here* | your strongest knight | man |  |  |  | vn confine-92-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent knight=Theme to i=Destination |
| 3 | **is a** *in a quote* | infinitive | man | Roland |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 4 | **fight** *in a quote* | may | man |  |  |  |  | with man | vn battle-36.4-1 «NP V PP.co-agent»: agent=Agent with i=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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