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title: And, turning to the Frenchmen, he cried, "Strike, friends, strike! a… — Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of F… · tree and pragmatics
description: And, turning to the Frenchmen, he cried, "Strike, friends, strike! and we shall conquer the enemy. Who acts: Oliver, we. 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 27

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And, turning to the Frenchmen, he cried, "Strike, friends, strike! and we shall conquer the enemy.

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**Who acts:** Oliver, we · **What happens:** turn, cry, conquer · **To what, where:** Strike, enemy · **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 (Oliver, 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:pg75339:31:27
# text = And, turning to the Frenchmen, he cried, "Strike, friends, strike! and we shall conquer the enemy.
1	And	and	CCONJ	CC	_	9	cc	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	3	punct	_	_
3	turning	turn	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	9	advcl	_	_
4	to	to	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	Frenchmen	Frenchman	PROPN	NNPS	Number=Plur	3	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	3	punct	_	_
8	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	9	nsubj	_	_
9	cried	cry	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
11	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	12	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	Strike	Strike	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	9	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
14	friends	friend	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	12	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
16	strike	strike	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	appos	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	!	!	PUNCT	.	_	12	punct	_	_
18	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	21	cc	_	_
19	we	we	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs	21	nsubj	_	_
20	shall	shall	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	21	aux	_	_
21	conquer	conquer	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	9	conj	_	_
22	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	23	det	_	_
23	enemy	enemy	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	9	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **turn** | gerund | Oliver *not said here* |  |  |  |  | to the Frenchmen *result* | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V PP.result»: agent=Theme to frenchman=Result |
| 2 | **cry** *speech: express* | past | Oliver | Strike and friends |  |  |  |  | vn manner\_speaking-37.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent strike=Topic |
| 3 | **conquer** *in a quote* | shall | we | the enemy |  |  |  |  | vn subjugate-42.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent enemy=Patient |

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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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