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title: Blancandrin answered, "This Roland must be hard of heart if he would… — Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of F… · tree and pragmatics
description: Blancandrin answered, "This Roland must be hard of heart if he would subdue every nation and lay his hands upon every country. Who acts: Blancandrin, Roland. A sentence of «Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France» by Alfred John Church, The Treason of Ganelon, with its dependency tree 
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# Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France, The Treason of Ganelon, sentence 21

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Blancandrin answered, "This Roland must be hard of heart if he would subdue every nation and lay his hands upon every country.

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**Who acts:** Blancandrin, Roland · **What happens:** answer, be, subdue, lie · **To what, where:** nation, hands · **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, The Treason of Ganelon. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Blancandrin, 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:pg75339:28:21
# text = Blancandrin answered, "This Roland must be hard of heart if he would subdue every nation and lay his hands upon every country.
1	Blancandrin	Blancandrin	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	nsubj	_	_
2	answered	answer	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	9	punct	_	_
4	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	9	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	This	this	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	6	det	_	_
6	Roland	Roland	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	9	nsubj	_	_
7	must	must	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	9	aux	_	_
8	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	9	cop	_	_
9	hard	hard	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	2	conj	_	_
10	of	of	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
11	heart	heart	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obl	_	_
12	if	if	SCONJ	IN	_	15	mark	_	_
13	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	15	nsubj	_	_
14	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	15	aux	_	_
15	subdue	subdue	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	9	csubj	_	_
16	every	every	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	17	det	_	_
17	nation	nation	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	obj	_	_
18	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	19	cc	_	_
19	lay	lie	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	15	conj	_	_
20	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	21	nmod:poss	_	_
21	hands	hand	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	19	obj	_	_
22	upon	upon	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	_
23	every	every	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	24	det	_	_
24	country	country	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **answer** *speech: assert* | past | Blancandrin |  |  |  |  |  | vn reciprocate-112-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **is** *in a quote* | must | this Roland |  |  |  |  | of heart; hard *property* | tree rules |
| 3 | **subdue** *a condition, not said to happen, in a quote* | would | Roland | every nation |  |  |  |  | vn subjugate-42.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent nation=Patient |
| 4 | **lie** *in a quote* | past | Roland *not said here* | Roland's hands |  |  |  | upon every country | vn spatial\_configuration-47.6 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location hand=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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