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title: My comrade is in a goodly rage," cried Roland; "these are the blows… — Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of F… · tree and pragmatics
description: My comrade is in a goodly rage," cried Roland; "these are the blows that make King Charles love us. Who acts: comrade, goodly rage, these, blows. A sentence of «Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France» by Alfred John Church, The Battle, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of ev
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# Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France, The Battle, sentence 116

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My comrade is in a goodly rage," cried Roland; "these are the blows that make King Charles love us.

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**Who acts:** comrade, goodly rage, these, blows · **What happens:** be, cry, make, love · **To what, where:** goodly rage, blows, Charles, us

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This is a sentence of «Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France» by Alfred John Church, The Battle. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (comrade, goodly rage, these, blows), 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:pg75339:31:116
# text = My comrade is in a goodly rage," cried Roland; "these are the blows that make King Charles love us.
1	My	my	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	7	nmod:poss	_	_
2	comrade	comrade	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	nsubj	_	_
3	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	7	cop	_	_
4	in	in	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
5	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
6	goodly	goodly	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	amod	_	_
7	rage	rage	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	7	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	7	punct	_	_
10	cried	cry	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
11	Roland	Roland	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	10	flat	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	_
13	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	17	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	these	this	PRON	DT	Number=Plur|PronType=Dem	17	nsubj	_	_
15	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	17	cop	_	_
16	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
17	blows	blow	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	10	obl	_	_
18	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	19	nsubj	_	_
19	make	make	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	17	acl:relcl	_	_
20	King	King	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	21	nmod:desc	_	_
21	Charles	Charles	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	19	obj	_	_
22	love	love	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	19	conj	_	_
23	us	we	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs	22	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	10	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | present | comrade |  |  | My goodly rage |  | My *nmod:poss* | tree rules |
| 2 | **cry** *speech: express* *in a quote* | past | My goodly rage |  |  |  |  | Roland *flat* | vn manner\_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **is a** | present | these | the blows |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 4 | **make** | present | the blows | Charles  King |  |  |  |  | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset charles=Product |
| 5 | **love** | present | the blows *not said here* | us |  |  |  |  | vn admire-31.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer we=Stimulus |

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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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