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description: Then said the Count Roland: "Whom should we choose but Ganelon? Who acts: Count Roland, we. 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, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France, How Ganelon Went on an Errand to King Marsilas, sentence 99

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Then said the Count Roland: "Whom should we choose but Ganelon?

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**Who acts:** Count Roland, we · **What happens:** say, choose · **To what, where:** Ganelon · **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: who acts (Count Roland, we), 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:pg75339:27:99
# text = Then said the Count Roland: "Whom should we choose but Ganelon?
1	Then	then	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	2	advmod	_	_
2	said	say	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
4	Count	Count	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	5	compound	_	_
5	Roland	Roland	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	11	punct	_	_
7	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	11	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	Whom	whom	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	11	obj	_	_
9	should	should	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	11	aux	_	_
10	we	we	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs	11	nsubj	_	_
11	choose	choose	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	2	conj	_	_
12	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	13	cc	_	_
13	Ganelon	Ganelon	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	11	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **say** *speech: ask* | past | the Count Roland |  |  |  | then |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **choose** *in a quote* | should | we | Ganelon |  |  |  | Whom *obj* | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP.beneficiary NP»: agent=Agent whom=Beneficiary ganelon=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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