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title: I thought," he cried, "that I had five of the best and bravest knigh… — Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of F… · tree and pragmatics
description: I thought," he cried, "that I had five of the best and bravest knights in France, and that having these I possessed, as it were, the keys of France." Who acts: I, Balan, that, these. A sentence of «Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France» by Alfred John Church, How Oliver and His Comra
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# Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France, How Oliver and His Comrades Fared, sentence 25

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I thought," he cried, "that I had five of the best and bravest knights in France, and that having these I possessed, as it were, the keys of France."

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**Who acts:** I, Balan, that, these, service · **What happens:** think, cry, have, possess, be · **To what, where:** that · **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 and His Comrades Fared. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (I, Balan, that, these), 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:pg75339:19:25
# text = I thought," he cried, "that I had five of the best and bravest knights in France, and that having these I possessed, as it were, the keys of France."
1	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	2	nsubj	_	_
2	thought	think	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	6	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	6	punct	_	_
5	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	6	nsubj	_	_
6	cried	cry	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	2	ccomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	6	punct	_	_
8	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	6	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	11	obj	_	_
10	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	11	nsubj	_	_
11	had	have	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	6	parataxis	_	_
12	five	five	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	11	obj	_	_
13	of	of	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
14	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
15	best	good	ADJ	JJS	Degree=Sup	18	amod	_	_
16	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	17	cc	_	_
17	bravest	brave	ADJ	JJS	Degree=Sup	15	conj	_	_
18	knights	knight	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	12	nmod	_	_
19	in	in	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
20	France	France	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	18	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	24	punct	_	_
22	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	24	cc	_	_
23	that	that	PRON	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	24	nsubj	_	_
24	having	have	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	2	ccomp	_	_
25	these	this	PRON	DT	Number=Plur|PronType=Dem	27	nsubj	_	_
26	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	27	nsubj	_	_
27	possessed	possess	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	24	parataxis	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	34	punct	_	_
29	as	as	ADP	IN	_	34	case	_	_
30	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	34	nsubj	_	_
31	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	34	cop	_	SpaceAfter=No
32	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	34	punct	_	_
33	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	34	det	_	_
34	keys	key	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	27	obl	_	_
35	of	of	ADP	IN	_	36	case	_	_
36	France	France	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	34	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
37	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
38	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **think** *speech: other* | past | I |  |  |  |  |  | vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme |
| 2 | **cry** *speech: express* *in a quote* | past | Balan |  |  |  |  |  | vn manner\_speaking-37.3 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 3 | **have** | past | I | that |  |  |  | five of the best knights in France *obj* | tree rules |
| 4 | **have** | gerund | that |  |  |  |  |  | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
| 5 | **possess** | past | these |  |  |  |  | I *nsubj* | vn own-100.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot |
| 6 | **is** | past | service |  |  |  |  | as the keys; of France | 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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