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title: Not one of the Twelve lingered in the rear, or was slow to strike, b… — Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of F… · tree and pragmatics
description: Not one of the Twelve lingered in the rear, or was slow to strike, but Count Roland was the bravest of the brave. " Who acts: one. 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 43

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Not one of the Twelve lingered in the rear, or was slow to strike, but Count Roland was the bravest of the brave. "

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**Who acts:** one · **What happens:** linger, be, strike · **To what, where:** rear

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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 (one), 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:pg75339:31:43
# text = Not one of the Twelve lingered in the rear, or was slow to strike, but Count Roland was the bravest of the brave. "
1	Not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	2	advmod	_	_
2	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	22	nsubj	_	_
3	of	of	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	Twelve	twelve	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	2	nmod	_	_
6	lingered	linger	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	2	acl	_	_
7	in	in	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
9	rear	rear	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
11	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	13	cc	_	_
12	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	13	cop	_	_
13	slow	slow	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	conj	_	_
14	to	to	PART	TO	_	15	mark	_	_
15	strike	strike	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	13	xcomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	22	punct	_	_
17	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	22	cc	_	_
18	Count	Count	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	22	nsubj	_	_
19	Roland	Roland	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	18	flat	_	_
20	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	22	cop	_	_
21	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	22	det	_	_
22	bravest	brave	ADJ	JJS	Degree=Sup	0	root	_	_
23	of	of	ADP	IN	_	25	case	_	_
24	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	25	det	_	_
25	brave	brave	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	22	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	22	punct	_	_
27	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	22	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **linger** | participle |  |  |  | the rear |  |  | vn exist-47.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in rear=Location |
| 2 | **is** | past |  |  |  |  |  | slow *property* | tree rules |
| 3 | **strike** | to-infinitive |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn sound\_emission-43.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 4 | **is** | past | one of the Twelve |  |  |  |  | of the brave; Count *nsubj*; brave *property* | tree rules |

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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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