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title: But of all that company there was none sadder of heart than the King… — Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of F… · tree and pragmatics
description: But of all that company there was none sadder of heart than the King himself, when he thought how he had left his nephew Count Roland behind him in the passes of Spain. Who acts: King. A sentence of «Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France» by Alfred John Church, Of the Plot Against Ro
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# Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France, Of the Plot Against Roland, sentence 53

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But of all that company there was none sadder of heart than the King himself, when he thought how he had left his nephew Count Roland behind him in the passes of Spain.

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**Who acts:** King · **What happens:** be, think, leave, pass · **To what, where:** nephew, passes, Spain · **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 (King), 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:pg75339:29:53
# text = But of all that company there was none sadder of heart than the King himself, when he thought how he had left his nephew Count Roland behind him in the passes of Spain.
1	But	but	CCONJ	CC	_	7	cc	_	_
2	of	of	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
3	all	all	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	5	det	_	_
4	that	that	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	5	det	_	_
5	company	company	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obl	_	_
6	there	there	PRON	EX	PronType=Dem	7	expl	_	_
7	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	9	cop	_	_
8	none	none	PRON	NN	PronType=Neg	7	nsubj	_	_
9	sadder	sad	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	0	root	_	_
10	of	of	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
11	heart	heart	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obl	_	_
12	than	than	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
13	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
14	King	King	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	9	obl	_	_
15	himself	himself	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs|Reflex=Yes	14	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	19	punct	_	_
17	when	when	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	19	advmod	_	_
18	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	19	nsubj	_	_
19	thought	think	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	9	conj	_	_
20	how	how	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	23	advmod	_	_
21	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	23	nsubj	_	_
22	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	23	aux	_	_
23	left	leave	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	19	ccomp	_	_
24	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	25	nmod:poss	_	_
25	nephew	nephew	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	obj	_	_
26	Count	Count	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	27	compound	_	_
27	Roland	Roland	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	23	obj	_	_
28	behind	behind	ADP	IN	_	29	case	_	_
29	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	23	obl	_	_
30	in	in	ADP	IN	_	32	case	_	_
31	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	32	det	_	_
32	passes	pass	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	23	obl	_	_
33	of	of	ADP	IN	_	34	case	_	_
34	Spain	Spain	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	32	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
35	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	9	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | past |  |  |  |  |  | of heart; than the King  King; sad *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **think** *speech: other* | past | King |  |  |  |  |  | vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme |
| 3 | **leave** | past · perfect | King | King's nephew |  | the passes of Spain |  | behind Roland; Count Roland *obj* | vn sustain-55.6-1 «NP V NP ADJ»: agent=Agent nephew=Theme roland=Attribute |
| 4 | **pass** |  |  | Spain |  |  |  |  | nom pass «act transitive»: of=patient |

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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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