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title: Then said Fierabras, "I knew that you were no poor and unknown knigh… — Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of F… · tree and pragmatics
description: Then said Fierabras, "I knew that you were no poor and unknown knight, but a great warrior and a famous, so great was your courage. Who acts: Fierabras, you. A sentence of «Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France» by Alfred John Church, How Oliver Fought With Fierabras, with its depend
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# Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France, How Oliver Fought With Fierabras, sentence 12

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Then said Fierabras, "I knew that you were no poor and unknown knight, but a great warrior and a famous, so great was your courage.

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**Who acts:** Fierabras, you · **What happens:** say, know, be · **To what, where:** poor knight, famous courage · **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 (Fierabras, 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:pg75339:17:12
# text = Then said Fierabras, "I knew that you were no poor and unknown knight, but a great warrior and a famous, so great was your courage.
1	Then	then	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	2	advmod	_	_
2	said	say	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	Fierabras	Fierabras	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	7	punct	_	_
5	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	7	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	7	nsubj	_	_
7	knew	know	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	2	parataxis	_	_
8	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	15	mark	_	_
9	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	15	nsubj	_	_
10	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	15	cop	_	_
11	no	no	DET	DT	PronType=Neg	15	det	_	_
12	poor	poor	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	15	amod	_	_
13	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	14	cc	_	_
14	unknown	unknown	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	12	conj	_	_
15	knight	knight	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	ccomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	20	punct	_	_
17	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	20	cc	_	_
18	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	20	det	_	_
19	great	great	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	20	amod	_	_
20	warrior	warrior	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	parataxis	_	_
21	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	29	cc	_	_
22	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	29	det	_	_
23	famous	famous	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	29	amod	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	26	punct	_	_
25	so	so	ADV	RB	_	26	advmod	_	_
26	great	great	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	23	conj	_	_
27	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	29	cop	_	_
28	your	your	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	29	nmod:poss	_	_
29	courage	courage	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
30	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **say** *speech: assert* | past | Fierabras |  |  |  | then | a great warrior and your famous courage *parataxis* | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 2 | **know** *in a quote* | past | Fierabras |  |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer |
| 3 | **is a** *in a quote* | past | you | no poor knight |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 4 | **is a** *in a quote* | past | Fierabras *not said here* | your famous courage |  |  |  | your *nmod:poss* | 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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