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# Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France, How Ganelon Went on an Errand to King Marsilas, sentence 54

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Then stood up the Count Roland, and said, "'Twere madness to trust this King Marsilas.

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**What happens:** stand up, say, trust · **To what, where:** King Marsilas · **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, How Ganelon Went on an Errand to King Marsilas. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: 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:pg75339:27:54
# text = Then stood up the Count Roland, and said, "'Twere madness to trust this King Marsilas.
1	Then	then	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	2	advmod	_	_
2	stood	stand	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	up	up	ADP	RP	_	2	compound:prt	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
5	Count	Count	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	6	compound	_	_
6	Roland	Roland	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	parataxis	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	9	punct	_	_
8	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	9	cc	_	_
9	said	say	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	2	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
11	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	14	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	'	'	PUNCT	``	_	14	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	Twere	Twere	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	14	compound	_	_
14	madness	madness	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	ccomp	_	_
15	to	to	PART	TO	_	16	mark	_	_
16	trust	trust	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	14	acl	_	_
17	this	this	PRON	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	19	nsubj	_	_
18	King	King	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	19	compound	_	_
19	Marsilas	Marsilas	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	16	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **stand up** | past |  |  |  |  | then | the Count Roland *parataxis* | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **say** *speech: assert* | past |  |  |  |  |  | Twere madness *ccomp* | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **trust** *in a quote* | to-infinitive |  | King Marsilas  this |  |  |  |  | vn conjecture-29.5-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent marsilas=Theme |

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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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