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title: He rode straight at Grandoigne, and these two met in the middle spac… — Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of F… · tree and pragmatics
description: He rode straight at Grandoigne, and these two met in the middle space between the hosts. Who acts: Roland, two. 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 every clause.
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# Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France, The Battle, sentence 134

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He rode straight at Grandoigne, and these two met in the middle space between the hosts.

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**Who acts:** Roland, two · **What happens:** ride, meet · **To what, where:** Grandoigne, middle space

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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 (Roland, two), 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:pg75339:31:134
# text = He rode straight at Grandoigne, and these two met in the middle space between the hosts.
1	He	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	nsubj	_	_
2	rode	ride	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	straight	straight	ADV	RB	_	2	advmod	_	_
4	at	at	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
5	Grandoigne	Grandoigne	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
7	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	10	cc	_	_
8	these	this	DET	DT	Number=Plur|PronType=Dem	9	det	_	_
9	two	two	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	10	nsubj	_	_
10	met	meet	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	2	conj	_	_
11	in	in	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
12	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
13	middle	middle	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	compound	_	_
14	space	space	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obl	_	_
15	between	between	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
16	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
17	hosts	host	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	14	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **ride** | past | Roland |  |  | Grandoigne |  | straight *property* | vn nonvehicle-51.4.2 «NP.agent V»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **meet** | participle | this two |  |  | the middle space between the hosts |  |  | vn meet-36.3-1 «NP V»: agent=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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