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title: There was not one of them but said to his comrade, "If we find Rolan… — Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of F… · tree and pragmatics
description: There was not one of them but said to his comrade, "If we find Roland yet alive, what mighty strokes will we strike for him!" Who acts: one, we, mighty strokes. A sentence of «Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France» by Alfred John Church, How Roland Sounded His Horn, with its dependen
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# Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France, How Roland Sounded His Horn, sentence 51

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There was not one of them but said to his comrade, "If we find Roland yet alive, what mighty strokes will we strike for him!"

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**Who acts:** one, we, mighty strokes · **What happens:** be, say, find, strike · **To what, where:** comrade, Roland · **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, 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 (one, we, mighty strokes), 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:pg75339:32:51
# text = There was not one of them but said to his comrade, "If we find Roland yet alive, what mighty strokes will we strike for him!"
1	There	there	PRON	EX	PronType=Dem	2	expl	_	_
2	was	be	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	4	advmod	_	_
4	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	2	nsubj	_	_
5	of	of	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
6	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	4	nmod	_	_
7	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	8	cc	_	_
8	said	say	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	2	conj	_	_
9	to	to	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
10	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	11	nmod:poss	_	_
11	comrade	comrade	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
13	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	16	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	If	if	SCONJ	IN	_	16	mark	_	_
15	we	we	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs	16	nsubj	_	_
16	find	find	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	8	conj	_	_
17	Roland	Roland	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	16	obj	_	_
18	yet	yet	ADV	RB	_	19	advmod	_	_
19	alive	alive	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	16	xcomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	26	punct	_	_
21	what	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	26	obj	_	_
22	mighty	mighty	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	23	amod	_	_
23	strokes	stroke	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	26	nsubj	_	_
24	will	will	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	26	aux	_	_
25	we	we	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs	26	nsubj	_	_
26	strike	strike	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	16	conj	_	_
27	for	for	ADP	IN	_	28	case	_	_
28	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	26	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
29	!	!	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
30	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **be** | past | one of flags |  |  | there |  |  | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **say** *speech: express* | past | one of flags *not said here* |  | Mighty's comrade |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V PP.recipient S-Quote»: agent=Agent to comrade=Recipient |
| 3 | **find** *a condition, not said to happen, in a quote* | present | we | Roland |  |  |  | alive *property* | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent roland=Topic |
| 4 | **strike** *in a quote* | future | mighty strokes |  |  |  |  | for Mighty; what *obj*; we *nsubj* | vn hit-18.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent what=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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