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title: Tis your folly, Count Roland, that has done to death all these men o… — Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of F… · tree and pragmatics
description: Tis your folly, Count Roland, that has done to death all these men of France. Who acts: you, that. A sentence of «Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France» by Alfred John Church, How Roland Sounded His Horn, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France, How Roland Sounded His Horn, sentence 17

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Tis your folly, Count Roland, that has done to death all these men of France.

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**Who acts:** you, that · **What happens:** tis, count, do · **To what, where:** folly, Roland, men

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This is a sentence of «Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France» by Alfred John Church, How Roland Sounded His Horn. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (you, that), 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:pg75339:32:17
# text = Tis your folly, Count Roland, that has done to death all these men of France.
1	Tis	tis	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
2	your	your	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	3	nmod:poss	_	_
3	folly	folly	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	5	punct	_	_
5	Count	count	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	1	conj	_	_
6	Roland	Roland	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	5	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
8	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	10	nsubj	_	_
9	has	have	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	10	aux	_	_
10	done	do	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	5	advcl	_	_
11	to	to	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
12	death	death	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obl	_	_
13	all	all	DET	PDT	PronType=Tot	15	det:predet	_	_
14	these	this	DET	DT	Number=Plur|PronType=Dem	15	det	_	_
15	men	man	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	10	obj	_	_
16	of	of	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
17	France	France	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	15	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	1	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **tis** | imperative | you *not said here* | your folly |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **count** | infinitive | you *not said here* | Roland |  |  |  |  | vn multiply-108 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent roland=Theme |
| 3 | **do** | present · perfect | that | all men of France |  |  |  | to death | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent man=Eventuality |

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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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