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title: After this Maradas rode out from the company of the Saracens, and sa… — Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of F… · tree and pragmatics
description: After this Maradas rode out from the company of the Saracens, and said, "It is an ill fortune for you, being Christian men, that you have met with us." " Who acts: Maradas, advice, you. A sentence of «Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France» by Alfred John Church, Of the Bridge of Mant
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# Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France, Of the Bridge of Mantryble, sentence 34

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After this Maradas rode out from the company of the Saracens, and said, "It is an ill fortune for you, being Christian men, that you have met with us." "

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**Who acts:** Maradas, advice, you · **What happens:** ride out, say, be, meet · **To what, where:** company, ill fortune, Christian men · **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, Of the Bridge of Mantryble. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Maradas, advice, 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:pg75339:20:34
# text = After this Maradas rode out from the company of the Saracens, and said, "It is an ill fortune for you, being Christian men, that you have met with us." "
1	After	after	SCONJ	IN	_	4	mark	_	_
2	this	this	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	3	det	_	_
3	Maradas	Maradas	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
4	rode	ride	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	out	out	ADP	RP	_	4	compound:prt	_	_
6	from	from	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	company	company	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	_
9	of	of	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
10	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
11	Saracens	Saracen	PROPN	NNPS	Number=Plur	8	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
13	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	14	cc	_	_
14	said	say	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	parataxis	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	21	punct	_	_
16	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	21	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	It	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	21	nsubj	_	_
18	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	21	cop	_	_
19	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	21	det	_	_
20	ill	ill	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	21	amod	_	_
21	fortune	fortune	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	ccomp	_	_
22	for	for	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
23	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Person=2|PronType=Prs	21	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	27	punct	_	_
25	being	be	AUX	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	27	cop	_	_
26	Christian	Christian	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	27	amod	_	_
27	men	man	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	21	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	32	punct	_	_
29	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	32	mark	_	_
30	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	32	nsubj	_	_
31	have	have	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	32	aux	_	_
32	met	meet	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	14	conj	_	_
33	with	with	ADP	IN	_	34	case	_	_
34	us	we	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs	32	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
35	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
36	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	4	punct	_	_
37	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	4	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **ride out** | past | this Maradas |  |  | the company of the Saracens |  |  | vn nonvehicle-51.4.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent from company=Trajectory |
| 2 | **say** *speech: assert* | past |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **is a** *in a quote* | present | advice | a ill fortune and Christian men |  |  |  | for you | tree rules |
| 4 | **is a** *in a quote* | gerund | advice *not said here* | Christian men |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 5 | **meet** *in a quote* | present · perfect | you |  |  |  |  | with us | vn meet-36.3-1 «NP V PP.co-agent»: agent=Agent with we=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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