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# Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France, Of the Doings of the French Knights, sentence 87

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And Roland said, "Now some one must keep the gates that we may be able, when the occasion comes, to enter it again.

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**Who acts:** Roland, one, gates, occasion · **What happens:** say, keep, be, come, enter · **To what, where:** gates, occasion · **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, one, gates, occasion), 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:pg75339:22:87
# text = And Roland said, "Now some one must keep the gates that we may be able, when the occasion comes, to enter it again.
1	And	and	CCONJ	CC	_	3	cc	_	_
2	Roland	Roland	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
3	said	say	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
5	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	10	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	Now	now	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	10	advmod	_	_
7	some	some	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	8	det	_	_
8	one	one	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	nsubj	_	_
9	must	must	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	10	aux	_	_
10	keep	keep	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	3	ccomp	_	_
11	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
12	gates	gate	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	10	obj	_	_
13	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	17	nsubj	_	_
14	we	we	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs	17	nsubj	_	_
15	may	may	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	17	aux	_	_
16	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	17	cop	_	_
17	able	able	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	12	acl:relcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	22	punct	_	_
19	when	when	SCONJ	WRB	_	22	mark	_	_
20	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	21	det	_	_
21	occasion	occasion	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	nsubj	_	_
22	comes	come	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	10	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	25	punct	_	_
24	to	to	PART	TO	_	25	mark	_	_
25	enter	enter	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	10	advcl	_	_
26	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	25	obj	_	_
27	again	again	ADV	RB	_	25	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **say** *speech: assert* | past | Roland |  |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 2 | **keep** *in a quote* | must | some one | the gates |  |  | now |  | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent gate=Theme |
| 3 | **is** *in a quote* | may | the gates |  |  |  |  | we *nsubj*; able *property* | tree rules |
| 4 | **come** *in a quote* | present | the occasion |  |  |  |  |  | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 5 | **enter** *in a quote* | to-infinitive | some one *not said here* | occasion |  |  | again |  | vn escape-51.1-1-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme it=Destination |

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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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