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title: They are all great warriors, but Roland is of such greatness that if… — Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of F… · tree and pragmatics
description: They are all great warriors, but Roland is of such greatness that if the rest were his match they would drive the Saracens out of Spain. Who acts: men, Roland, rest. A sentence of «Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France» by Alfred John Church, Of Guy of Burgundy, with its dependency t
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# Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France, Of Guy of Burgundy, sentence 82

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They are all great warriors, but Roland is of such greatness that if the rest were his match they would drive the Saracens out of Spain.

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**Who acts:** men, Roland, rest · **What happens:** be, drive · **To what, where:** great warriors, match, such greatness, Spain

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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 (men, Roland, rest), 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:pg75339:23:82
# text = They are all great warriors, but Roland is of such greatness that if the rest were his match they would drive the Saracens out of Spain.
1	They	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	5	nsubj	_	_
2	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	5	cop	_	_
3	all	all	ADV	RB	_	5	advmod	_	_
4	great	great	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	amod	_	_
5	warriors	warrior	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
7	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	12	cc	_	_
8	Roland	Roland	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	12	nsubj	_	_
9	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	12	cop	_	_
10	of	of	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
11	such	such	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	12	amod	_	_
12	greatness	greatness	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	appos	_	_
13	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	22	obj	_	_
14	if	if	SCONJ	IN	_	19	mark	_	_
15	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
16	rest	rest	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	nsubj	_	_
17	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	19	cop	_	_
18	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	19	nmod:poss	_	_
19	match	match	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	advcl	_	_
20	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	22	nsubj	_	_
21	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	22	aux	_	_
22	drive	drive	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	12	acl:relcl	_	_
23	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	24	det	_	_
24	Saracens	Saracen	PROPN	NNPS	Number=Plur	22	obj	_	_
25	out	out	ADP	IN	_	27	case	_	_
26	of	of	ADP	IN	_	27	case	_	_
27	Spain	Spain	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	22	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** | present | men *= man* | great warriors |  |  |  | all *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **is** | present | Roland |  |  |  |  | of such greatness | tree rules |
| 3 | **is a** *a condition, not said to happen* | past | the rest | knight's match |  |  |  | knight *nmod:poss* | tree rules |
| 4 | **drive** | would | men *= man* | such greatness |  | Spain |  | the Saracens *obj* | vn put\_direction-9.4 «NP V NP ADVP»: agent=Agent that=Theme saracen=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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