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description: Meanwhile King Charles had entered the valley of Roncesvalles, his vanguard being led by Ogier the Dane. Who acts: Ogier. 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 clau
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# Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France, Of the Plot Against Roland, sentence 49

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Meanwhile King Charles had entered the valley of Roncesvalles, his vanguard being led by Ogier the Dane.

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**Who acts:** Ogier · **What happens:** enter, lead · **To what, where:** Meanwhile, vanguard

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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 (Ogier), 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:pg75339:29:49
# text = Meanwhile King Charles had entered the valley of Roncesvalles, his vanguard being led by Ogier the Dane.
1	Meanwhile	Meanwhile	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	5	nsubj:pass	_	_
2	King	King	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	nmod:desc	_	_
3	Charles	Charles	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	1	conj	_	_
4	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	aux	_	_
5	entered	enter	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	valley	valley	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obj	_	_
8	of	of	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
9	Roncesvalles	Roncesvalles	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	7	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
11	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	12	nmod:poss	_	_
12	vanguard	vanguard	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	nsubj:pass	_	_
13	being	be	AUX	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	14	aux:pass	_	_
14	led	lead	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	5	conj	_	_
15	by	by	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
16	Ogier	Ogier	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	14	obl:agent	_	_
17	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
18	Dane	Dane	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	16	appos	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **enter** | past · perfect · passive |  | Meanwhile and Charles  King |  |  |  | the valley of Roncesvalles *obj* | tree rules |
| 2 | **lead** | gerund · passive | Ogier | Roncesvalles's vanguard |  |  |  |  | vn accompany-51.7 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent subject=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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