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title: Full courteously he spake to them: "Ride not so fast, my lords," he… — Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of F… · tree and pragmatics
description: Full courteously he spake to them: "Ride not so fast, my lords," he said; "verily these heathen are come hither, seeking martyrdom. ' Who acts: Roland. A sentence of «Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France» by Alfred John Church, How the Heathen and the French Prepared For Battle, wit
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# Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France, How the Heathen and the French Prepared For Battle, sentence 54

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Full courteously he spake to them: "Ride not so fast, my lords," he said; "verily these heathen are come hither, seeking martyrdom. '

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**Who acts:** Roland · **What happens:** speak, not ride, say, come, seek · **To what, where:** men, lords, heathen, martyrdom · **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, How the Heathen and the French Prepared For Battle. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Roland), 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:pg75339:30:54
# text = Full courteously he spake to them: "Ride not so fast, my lords," he said; "verily these heathen are come hither, seeking martyrdom. '
1	Full	full	ADV	RB	_	4	advmod	_	_
2	courteously	courteously	ADV	RB	_	4	advmod	_	_
3	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	4	nsubj	_	_
4	spake	speak	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
5	to	to	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
6	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	4	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	9	punct	_	_
8	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	9	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	Ride	ride	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	4	parataxis	_	_
10	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	9	advmod	_	_
11	so	so	ADV	RB	_	12	advmod	_	_
12	fast	fast	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	9	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
14	my	my	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	15	nmod:poss	_	_
15	lords	lord	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	9	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	19	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	19	punct	_	_
18	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	19	nsubj	_	_
19	said	say	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	9	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	26	punct	_	_
21	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	26	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	verily	verily	ADV	RB	_	26	advmod	_	_
23	these	this	DET	DT	Number=Plur|PronType=Dem	24	det	_	_
24	heathen	heathen	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	26	nsubj	_	_
25	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	26	aux:pass	_	_
26	come	come	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	9	parataxis	_	_
27	hither	hither	ADV	RB	_	26	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	29	punct	_	_
29	seeking	seek	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	26	advcl	_	_
30	martyrdom	martyrdom	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	29	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
31	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
32	'	'	PUNCT	''	_	4	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **speak** *speech: other* | infinitive | Roland |  | men *= man* |  |  | courteously, full *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **not** **ride** *in a quote* | infinitive |  | my lords |  |  |  | fast *property* | vn nonvehicle-51.4.2 «NP.agent V»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **say** *speech: assert* | past | Roland |  |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent |
| 4 | **come** *in a quote* | present · passive |  | this heathen |  |  |  | hither, verily *property* | vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: subject=Theme |
| 5 | **seek** *in a quote* | gerund |  | martyrdom |  |  |  |  | vn hunt-35.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent martyrdom=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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