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title: I fear me much that this Ganelon will be the ruin of France. — Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of F… · tree and pragmatics
description: I fear me much that this Ganelon will be the ruin of France. Who acts: I, Ganelon. 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 56

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I fear me much that this Ganelon will be the ruin of France.

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**Who acts:** I, Ganelon · **What happens:** fear, be · **To what, where:** me, ruin

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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 (I, Ganelon), 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:pg75339:29:56
# text = I fear me much that this Ganelon will be the ruin of France.
1	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	2	nsubj	_	_
2	fear	fear	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	me	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	2	obj	_	_
4	much	much	ADV	RB	_	2	advmod	_	_
5	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	11	mark	_	_
6	this	this	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	7	det	_	_
7	Ganelon	Ganelon	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	11	nsubj	_	_
8	will	will	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	11	aux	_	_
9	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	11	cop	_	_
10	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
11	ruin	ruin	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	advcl	_	_
12	of	of	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
13	France	France	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	11	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **fear** | present | I | me |  |  |  |  | vn admire-31.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer i=Stimulus |
| 2 | **is a** | future | this Ganelon | the ruin |  |  |  | of France | tree rules |

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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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