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title: Now choose me eleven of your nobles, and we will fight with the Twel… — Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of F… · tree and pragmatics
description: Now choose me eleven of your nobles, and we will fight with the Twelve Peers of France." Who acts: you, we. 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 71

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Now choose me eleven of your nobles, and we will fight with the Twelve Peers of France."

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**Who acts:** you, we · **What happens:** choose, fight · **To what, where:** eleven, me

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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 (you, we), 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:pg75339:29:71
# text = Now choose me eleven of your nobles, and we will fight with the Twelve Peers of France."
1	Now	now	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	2	advmod	_	_
2	choose	choose	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	me	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	2	obj	_	_
4	eleven	eleven	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	2	obj	_	_
5	of	of	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
6	your	your	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	7	nmod:poss	_	_
7	nobles	noble	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
9	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	12	cc	_	_
10	we	we	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs	12	nsubj	_	_
11	will	will	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	12	aux	_	_
12	fight	fight	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	2	conj	_	_
13	with	with	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
14	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
15	Twelve	twelve	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	16	nummod	_	_
16	Peers	Peer	PROPN	NNPS	Number=Plur	12	obl	_	_
17	of	of	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
18	France	France	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	16	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **choose** | imperative | you *not said here* | eleven of your nobles | me |  | now |  | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP.beneficiary NP»: agent=Agent i=Beneficiary eleven=Theme |
| 2 | **fight** | future | we |  |  |  |  | with the Twelve Peers of France | vn battle-36.4-1 «NP V PP.co-agent»: agent=Agent with peer=Co-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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