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title: Said Ganelon, "Whom should we choose but my son-in-law, Count Roland? — Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of F… · tree and pragmatics
description: Said Ganelon, "Whom should we choose but my son-in-law, Count Roland? Who acts: Ganelon, we, son. A sentence of «Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France» by Alfred John Church, Of the Plot Against Roland, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France, Of the Plot Against Roland, sentence 25

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Said Ganelon, "Whom should we choose but my son-in-law, Count Roland?

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**Who acts:** Ganelon, we, son · **What happens:** say, choose, count · **To what, where:** Roland · **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, Of the Plot Against Roland. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Ganelon, we, son), 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:pg75339:29:25
# text = Said Ganelon, "Whom should we choose but my son-in-law, Count Roland?
1	Said	say	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
2	Ganelon	Ganelon	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	1	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	8	punct	_	_
4	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	8	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	Whom	whom	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	8	obj	_	_
6	should	should	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	8	aux	_	_
7	we	we	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs	8	nsubj	_	_
8	choose	choose	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	1	ccomp	_	_
9	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	17	cc	_	_
10	my	my	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	11	nmod:poss	_	_
11	son	son	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	15	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	in	in	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	13	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	law	law	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	_
17	Count	count	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	8	conj	_	_
18	Roland	Roland	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	17	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	1	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 | Ganelon |  |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 2 | **choose** *in a quote* | should | we |  |  |  |  | Whom *obj* | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent whom=Theme |
| 3 | **count** *in a quote* | infinitive | my son in law | Roland |  |  |  |  | vn multiply-108 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent roland=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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