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description: Oliver answered, "You could not have adjured me by greater things than this same font and cross; know therefore that I am Oliver, the son of Reyner, close comrade of Roland, and one of the Twelve Peers of France." Who acts: Oliver, You. A sentence of «Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of F
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# Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France, How Oliver Fought With Fierabras, sentence 11

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Oliver answered, "You could not have adjured me by greater things than this same font and cross; know therefore that I am Oliver, the son of Reyner, close comrade of Roland, and one of the Twelve Peers of France."

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**Who acts:** Oliver, You · **What happens:** answer, not adjure, know, be · **To what, where:** Oliver · **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 Oliver Fought With Fierabras. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Oliver, You), 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:pg75339:17:11
# text = Oliver answered, "You could not have adjured me by greater things than this same font and cross; know therefore that I am Oliver, the son of Reyner, close comrade of Roland, and one of the Twelve Peers of France."
1	Oliver	Oliver	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	nsubj	_	_
2	answered	answer	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	9	punct	_	_
4	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	9	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	You	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	9	nsubj	_	_
6	could	could	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	9	aux	_	_
7	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	9	advmod	_	_
8	have	have	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	9	aux	_	_
9	adjured	adjure	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	2	ccomp	_	_
10	me	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	9	obj	_	_
11	by	by	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
12	greater	great	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	13	amod	_	_
13	things	thing	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	9	obl	_	_
14	than	than	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
15	this	this	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	17	det	_	_
16	same	same	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	17	amod	_	_
17	font	font	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	nmod	_	_
18	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	19	cc	_	_
19	cross	cross	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	21	punct	_	_
21	know	know	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	2	conj	_	_
22	therefore	therefore	ADV	RB	_	21	advmod	_	_
23	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	26	mark	_	_
24	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	26	nsubj	_	_
25	am	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	26	cop	_	_
26	Oliver	Oliver	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	21	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	29	punct	_	_
28	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	29	det	_	_
29	son	son	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	26	appos	_	_
30	of	of	ADP	IN	_	31	case	_	_
31	Reyner	Reyner	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	29	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
32	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	34	punct	_	_
33	close	close	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	34	amod	_	_
34	comrade	comrade	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	26	appos	_	_
35	of	of	ADP	IN	_	36	case	_	_
36	Roland	Roland	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	34	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
37	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	39	punct	_	_
38	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	39	cc	_	_
39	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	2	conj	_	_
40	of	of	ADP	IN	_	43	case	_	_
41	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	43	det	_	_
42	Twelve	twelve	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	43	nummod	_	_
43	Peers	Peer	PROPN	NNPS	Number=Plur	39	nmod	_	_
44	of	of	ADP	IN	_	45	case	_	_
45	France	France	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	43	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
46	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
47	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **answer** *speech: assert* | past | Oliver |  |  |  |  | one of the Twelve Peers of France *conj* | tree rules |
| 2 | **not** **adjure** *in a quote* | could · perfect | You | Oliver |  |  |  | by greater things than this same font and cross | tree rules |
| 3 | **know** *in a quote* | infinitive | Oliver *not said here* |  |  |  |  | therefore *property* | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer |
| 4 | **is a** *in a quote* | present | Oliver | Oliver |  |  |  | the son of Reyner *appos*; close comrade of Roland *appos* | tree rules |

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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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