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title: After the battle with the Saracens Roland and his fellows rested awh… — Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of F… · tree and pragmatics
description: After the battle with the Saracens Roland and his fellows rested awhile in a meadow that was nigh at hand. Who acts: meadow. A sentence of «Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France» by Alfred John Church, Of the Bridge of Mantryble, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every c
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# Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France, Of the Bridge of Mantryble, sentence 52

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After the battle with the Saracens Roland and his fellows rested awhile in a meadow that was nigh at hand.

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**Who acts:** meadow · **What happens:** rest, be · **To what, where:** meadow, hand

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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 (meadow), 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:pg75339:20:52
# text = After the battle with the Saracens Roland and his fellows rested awhile in a meadow that was nigh at hand.
1	After	after	ADP	IN	_	3	case	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	battle	battle	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	obl	_	_
4	with	with	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
6	Saracens	Saracens	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	7	compound	_	_
7	Roland	Roland	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	nmod	_	_
8	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	10	cc	_	_
9	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	10	nmod:poss	_	_
10	fellows	fellow	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	7	conj	_	_
11	rested	rest	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
12	awhile	awhile	ADV	RB	_	11	advmod	_	_
13	in	in	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
14	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
15	meadow	meadow	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	obl	_	_
16	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	18	nsubj	_	_
17	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	18	cop	_	_
18	nigh	nigh	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	15	acl:relcl	_	_
19	at	at	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
20	hand	hand	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	11	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **rest** | past |  |  |  | a meadow | after the battle with the Saracens Roland and Roland's fellows | awhile *property* | vn spatial\_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in meadow=Location |
| 2 | **is** | past | a meadow |  |  | hand |  | nigh *property* | 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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