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title: Five knights, valiant men of war all of them, he slew one after the… — Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of F… · tree and pragmatics
description: Five knights, valiant men of war all of them, he slew one after the other, so that the men of France cried, "How fast they fall, these champions of ours!" Who acts: Five knights, men. A sentence of «Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France» by Alfred John Church, The Battle, with its de
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# Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France, The Battle, sentence 132

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Five knights, valiant men of war all of them, he slew one after the other, so that the men of France cried, "How fast they fall, these champions of ours!"

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**Who acts:** Five knights, men · **What happens:** slay, cry, fall · **To what, where:** one · **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, 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 (Five knights, men), 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:pg75339:31:132
# text = Five knights, valiant men of war all of them, he slew one after the other, so that the men of France cried, "How fast they fall, these champions of ours!"
1	Five	five	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	2	nummod	_	_
2	knights	knight	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	13	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	5	punct	_	_
4	valiant	valiant	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	amod	_	_
5	men	man	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	appos	_	_
6	of	of	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
7	war	war	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nmod	_	_
8	all	all	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	7	appos	_	_
9	of	of	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
10	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	8	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	2	punct	_	_
12	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	13	nsubj	_	_
13	slew	slay	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
14	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	13	obj	_	_
15	after	after	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
16	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
17	other	other	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	14	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	25	punct	_	_
19	so	so	ADV	RB	_	25	advmod	_	_
20	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	25	mark	_	_
21	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	22	det	_	_
22	men	man	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	25	nsubj	_	_
23	of	of	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	_
24	France	France	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	22	nmod	_	_
25	cried	cry	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	13	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	29	punct	_	_
27	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	29	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	How	how	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	29	advmod	_	_
29	fast	fast	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	25	advmod	_	_
30	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	31	nsubj	_	_
31	fall	fall	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	29	parataxis	_	SpaceAfter=No
32	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	34	punct	_	_
33	these	this	DET	DT	Number=Plur|PronType=Dem	34	det	_	_
34	champions	champion	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	25	parataxis	_	_
35	of	of	ADP	IN	_	36	case	_	_
36	ours	our	PRON	PRP	Number=Plur|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	34	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
37	!	!	PUNCT	.	_	34	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
38	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	13	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **slay** | past | Five knights | one |  |  | after the other | knight *nsubj* | vn murder-42.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent one=Patient |
| 2 | **cry** *speech: express* | past | the men of France |  |  |  |  | this champions of ours *parataxis*; fast *property* | vn manner\_speaking-37.3 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 3 | **fall** *in a quote* | present | men *= man* |  |  |  |  |  | vn occur-48.3 «NP V»: agent=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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