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title: When Count Roland knew what was proposed concerning him, he spake ou… — Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of F… · tree and pragmatics
description: When Count Roland knew what was proposed concerning him, he spake out as a true knight should speak. " Who acts: Count, true knight. 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
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# Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France, Of the Plot Against Roland, sentence 33

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When Count Roland knew what was proposed concerning him, he spake out as a true knight should speak. "

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**Who acts:** Count, true knight · **What happens:** know, propose, concern, speak out, speak · **To what, where:** Count · **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 (Count, true knight), 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:pg75339:29:33
# text = When Count Roland knew what was proposed concerning him, he spake out as a true knight should speak. "
1	When	when	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	4	advmod	_	_
2	Count	Count	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
3	Roland	Roland	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	flat	_	_
4	knew	know	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	12	advcl	_	_
5	what	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	7	nsubj:pass	_	_
6	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	7	aux:pass	_	_
7	proposed	propose	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	4	ccomp	_	_
8	concerning	concern	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	7	xcomp	_	_
9	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	8	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	4	punct	_	_
11	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	12	nsubj	_	_
12	spake	speak	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
13	out	out	ADP	RP	_	12	compound:prt	_	_
14	as	as	SCONJ	IN	_	19	mark	_	_
15	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
16	true	true	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	17	amod	_	_
17	knight	knight	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	nsubj	_	_
18	should	should	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	19	aux	_	_
19	speak	speak	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	12	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	12	punct	_	_
21	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	12	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **know** | past | Count |  |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V how S\_INF»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus |
| 2 | **propose** | past · passive |  |  |  |  |  | what *nsubj:pass* | tree rules |
| 3 | **concern** | gerund |  | Count |  |  |  |  | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus he=Experiencer |
| 4 | **speak out** *speech: other* | past | Count |  |  |  |  |  | vn lecture-37.11-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 5 | **speak** *speech: other* | should | a true knight |  |  |  |  |  | vn talk-37.5 «NP V»: agent=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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