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description: Madam," answered Roland, "he is here in this very place; there is not more than four feet of space between him and you." Who acts: Madam, Roland. A sentence of «Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France» by Alfred John Church, Of the Doings of Floripas, with its dependency tree and the p
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# Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France, Of the Doings of Floripas, sentence 68

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Madam," answered Roland, "he is here in this very place; there is not more than four feet of space between him and you."

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**Who acts:** Madam, Roland · **What happens:** answer, be, not be · **To what, where:** Roland, place, four feet · **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 Doings of Floripas. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Madam, Roland), 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:pg75339:21:68
# text = Madam," answered Roland, "he is here in this very place; there is not more than four feet of space between him and you."
1	Madam	madam	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	1	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	1	punct	_	_
4	answered	answer	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	Roland	Roland	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	22	punct	_	_
7	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	10	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	10	nsubj	_	_
9	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	10	cop	_	_
10	here	here	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	22	parataxis	_	_
11	in	in	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
12	this	this	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	14	det	_	_
13	very	very	ADV	RB	_	14	advmod	_	_
14	place	place	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	_
16	there	there	PRON	EX	PronType=Dem	17	expl	_	_
17	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	22	cop	_	_
18	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	22	advmod	_	_
19	more	more	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp|ExtPos=ADV	21	advmod	_	_
20	than	than	ADP	IN	_	19	fixed	_	_
21	four	four	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	22	nummod	_	_
22	feet	foot	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	parataxis	_	_
23	of	of	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	_
24	space	space	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	nmod	_	_
25	between	between	ADP	IN	_	26	case	_	_
26	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	24	nmod	_	_
27	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	28	cc	_	_
28	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	26	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
29	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	22	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
30	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **answer** *speech: assert* *in a quote* | past | Madam |  | Roland |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **is** | present | Roland |  |  | this place |  | here *property* | tree rules |
| 3 | **not** **is a** | present |  | four feet |  |  |  | of space between Roland | 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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