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title: When they were all brought to the ground, Roland said to Floripas, "… — Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of F… · tree and pragmatics
description: When they were all brought to the ground, Roland said to Floripas, "Madam, these gods are of no power and avail nothing." Who acts: Roland, gods. A sentence of «Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France» by Alfred John Church, Of the Doings of the French Knights, with its dependency tree
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# Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France, Of the Doings of the French Knights, sentence 84

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When they were all brought to the ground, Roland said to Floripas, "Madam, these gods are of no power and avail nothing."

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**Who acts:** Roland, gods · **What happens:** bring, say, be, avail · **To what, where:** churches, ground, Floripas, nothing · **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 the French Knights. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Roland, gods), 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:pg75339:22:84
# text = When they were all brought to the ground, Roland said to Floripas, "Madam, these gods are of no power and avail nothing."
1	When	when	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	5	advmod	_	_
2	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	5	nsubj:pass	_	_
3	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	aux:pass	_	_
4	all	all	ADV	RB	_	5	advmod	_	_
5	brought	bring	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	11	ccomp	_	_
6	to	to	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	ground	ground	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	5	punct	_	_
10	Roland	Roland	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	11	nsubj	_	_
11	said	say	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
12	to	to	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
13	Floripas	Floripas	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	11	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
15	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	16	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	Madam	madam	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	appos	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	23	punct	_	_
18	these	this	DET	DT	Number=Plur|PronType=Dem	19	det	_	_
19	gods	god	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	23	nsubj	_	_
20	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	23	cop	_	_
21	of	of	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
22	no	no	DET	DT	PronType=Neg	23	det	_	_
23	power	power	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	conj	_	_
24	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	25	cc	_	_
25	avail	avail	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	11	conj	_	_
26	nothing	nothing	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Neg	25	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	11	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	11	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **bring** | past · passive |  | churches *= church* |  | the ground |  | all *property* | vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: subject=Theme to ground=Destination |
| 2 | **say** *speech: assert* | past | Roland |  | Floripas and no power |  |  |  | vn indicate-78-1 «NP V PP.recipient whether/if S»: agent=Pivot to floripas=Experiencer clause=Topic |
| 3 | **is** *in a quote* | present | this gods |  |  |  |  | of no power | tree rules |
| 4 | **avail** *in a quote* | present | Roland *not said here* | nothing |  |  |  |  | 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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