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title: This Roland is a great warrior; it will be no easy thing to conquer… — Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of F… · tree and pragmatics
description: This Roland is a great warrior; it will be no easy thing to conquer him. Who acts: Roland, courage. 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 91

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This Roland is a great warrior; it will be no easy thing to conquer him.

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**Who acts:** Roland, courage · **What happens:** be, conquer · **To what, where:** great warrior, easy thing, Roland

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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, courage), 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:pg75339:31:91
# text = This Roland is a great warrior; it will be no easy thing to conquer him.
1	This	this	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	2	det	_	_
2	Roland	Roland	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	6	nsubj	_	_
3	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	6	cop	_	_
4	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
5	great	great	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	amod	_	_
6	warrior	warrior	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
8	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	13	nsubj	_	_
9	will	will	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	13	aux	_	_
10	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	13	cop	_	_
11	no	no	DET	DT	PronType=Neg	13	det	_	_
12	easy	easy	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	13	amod	_	_
13	thing	thing	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	appos	_	_
14	to	to	PART	TO	_	15	mark	_	_
15	conquer	conquer	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	13	acl	_	_
16	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	15	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** | present | this Roland | a great warrior |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **is a** | future | courage | no easy thing |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **conquer** | to-infinitive | this Roland *not said here* | Roland |  |  |  |  | vn subjugate-42.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=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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