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title: Thus the two talked together, and by the time that they came to Sara… — Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of F… · tree and pragmatics
description: Thus the two talked together, and by the time that they came to Saragossa they had agreed together to seek the means by which Roland might come by his death. Who acts: two, treasures, the, Roland. A sentence of «Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France» by Alfred John Church, The Treaso
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# Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France, The Treason of Ganelon, sentence 32

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Thus the two talked together, and by the time that they came to Saragossa they had agreed together to seek the means by which Roland might come by his death.

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**Who acts:** two, treasures, the, Roland · **What happens:** talk, come, agree, seek, mean, die · **To what, where:** time, Saragossa · **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 (two, treasures, the, 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:pg75339:28:32
# text = Thus the two talked together, and by the time that they came to Saragossa they had agreed together to seek the means by which Roland might come by his death.
1	Thus	thus	ADV	RB	_	4	advmod	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	two	two	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	4	nsubj	_	_
4	talked	talk	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	together	together	ADV	RB	_	4	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	_
7	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	18	cc	_	_
8	by	by	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
9	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
10	time	time	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	obl	_	_
11	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	13	mark	_	_
12	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	13	nsubj	_	_
13	came	come	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	10	acl:relcl	_	_
14	to	to	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
15	Saragossa	Saragossa	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	13	obl	_	_
16	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	18	nsubj	_	_
17	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	18	aux	_	_
18	agreed	agree	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	4	conj	_	_
19	together	together	ADV	RB	_	18	advmod	_	_
20	to	to	PART	TO	_	21	mark	_	_
21	seek	seek	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	18	advcl	_	_
22	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	23	nsubj	_	_
23	means	mean	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	21	ccomp	_	_
24	by	by	SCONJ	IN	_	28	mark	_	_
25	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	28	nsubj	_	_
26	Roland	Roland	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	28	nsubj	_	_
27	might	might	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	28	aux	_	_
28	come	come	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	23	ccomp	_	_
29	by	by	ADP	IN	_	31	case	_	_
30	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	31	nmod:poss	_	_
31	death	death	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	28	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
32	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **talk** | past | the two |  |  |  |  | thus, together *property* | vn talk-37.5 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **come** | past | treasures *= treasure* | the time *not said here* | Saragossa |  |  |  | vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location time=Theme |
| 3 | **agree** *speech: agree* | past · perfect | treasures *= treasure* |  |  |  | time | together *property* | vn correspond-36.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 4 | **seek** | to-infinitive | treasures *= treasure* *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 5 | **mean** | present | the |  |  |  |  |  | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 6 | **come** | might |  |  |  |  |  | by Roland's death; which *nsubj*; Roland *nsubj* | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme by death=Location |
| 7 | **die** |  | Roland |  |  |  |  |  | nom death «event intransitive»: poss=agent |

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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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