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# Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France, How Oliver Fought With Fierabras, sentence 14

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But Oliver answered him fiercely, "Enough of these idle words; when we come to fight together you shall see that I am no dead man.

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**Who acts:** Oliver, we, Fierabras · **What happens:** answer, come, fight, see, be · **To what, where:** Fierabras, dead man · **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, we, Fierabras), 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:pg75339:17:14
# text = But Oliver answered him fiercely, "Enough of these idle words; when we come to fight together you shall see that I am no dead man.
1	But	but	CCONJ	CC	_	3	cc	_	_
2	Oliver	Oliver	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
3	answered	answer	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	obj	_	_
5	fiercely	fiercely	ADV	RB	_	3	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	8	punct	_	_
7	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	8	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	Enough	enough	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	conj	_	_
9	of	of	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
10	these	this	DET	DT	Number=Plur|PronType=Dem	12	det	_	_
11	idle	idle	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	12	amod	_	_
12	words	word	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	8	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
14	when	when	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	16	advmod	_	_
15	we	we	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs	16	nsubj	_	_
16	come	come	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	_
17	to	to	PART	TO	_	18	mark	_	_
18	fight	fight	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	16	xcomp	_	_
19	together	together	ADV	RB	_	18	advmod	_	_
20	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	22	nsubj	_	_
21	shall	shall	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	22	aux	_	_
22	see	see	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	18	conj	_	_
23	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	28	mark	_	_
24	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	28	nsubj	_	_
25	am	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	28	cop	_	_
26	no	no	DET	DT	PronType=Neg	28	det	_	_
27	dead	dead	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	28	amod	_	_
28	man	man	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	ccomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
29	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	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 |  | Fierabras |  |  | fiercely *property* | vn reciprocate-112-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent he=Eventuality |
| 2 | **come** *in a quote* | present | we |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **fight** *in a quote* | to-infinitive | we *not said here* |  |  |  |  | together *property* | vn battle-36.4-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 4 | **see** *in a quote* | shall | Fierabras |  |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer |
| 5 | **is a** *in a quote* | present | Oliver | no dead man |  |  |  |  | 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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