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description: Then they charged the Saracens yet again; Roland being still in the front, and driving the pagans before him, for they flew from him on all sides. Who acts: Friends, Roland. A sentence of «Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France» by Alfred John Church, Of Guy of Burgundy, with its depe
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# Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France, Of Guy of Burgundy, sentence 74

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Then they charged the Saracens yet again; Roland being still in the front, and driving the pagans before him, for they flew from him on all sides.

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**Who acts:** Friends, Roland · **What happens:** charge, be, drive, fly · **To what, where:** Saracens, front, pagans, sides

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This is a sentence of «Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France» by Alfred John Church, Of Guy of Burgundy. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Friends, 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:pg75339:23:74
# text = Then they charged the Saracens yet again; Roland being still in the front, and driving the pagans before him, for they flew from him on all sides.
1	Then	then	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	3	advmod	_	_
2	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
3	charged	charge	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	Saracens	Saracen	PROPN	NNPS	Number=Plur	3	obj	_	_
6	yet	yet	ADV	RB	_	7	advmod	_	_
7	again	again	ADV	RB	_	3	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
9	Roland	Roland	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	14	nsubj	_	_
10	being	be	AUX	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	14	cop	_	_
11	still	still	ADV	RB	_	14	advmod	_	_
12	in	in	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
13	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
14	front	front	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	_
16	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	17	cc	_	_
17	driving	drive	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	3	advcl	_	_
18	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	19	det	_	_
19	pagans	pagan	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	17	obj	_	_
20	before	before	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
21	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	17	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	25	punct	_	_
23	for	for	SCONJ	IN	_	25	mark	_	_
24	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	25	nsubj	_	_
25	flew	fly	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	_
26	from	from	ADP	IN	_	27	case	_	_
27	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	25	obl	_	_
28	on	on	ADP	IN	_	30	case	_	_
29	all	all	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	30	det	_	_
30	sides	side	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	25	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
31	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **charge** | past | Friends *= friend* | the Saracens |  |  | then; again; yet |  | vn run-51.3.2 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Initial\_Location saracen=Theme |
| 2 | **is** | gerund | Roland |  |  | the front | still |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **drive** | gerund | Friends *= friend* *not said here* | the pagans |  |  | before Saracen |  | vn put\_direction-9.4 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent pagan=Theme before he=Destination |
| 4 | **fly** | past | Friends *= friend* |  |  | all sides |  | from Saracen | vn spatial\_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme on side=Location |

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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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