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title: But Roland cried again, "Strike home, men; have no mercy on these he… — Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of F… · tree and pragmatics
description: But Roland cried again, "Strike home, men; have no mercy on these heathen dogs." Who acts: Roland. A sentence of «Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France» by Alfred John Church, How Oliver Was Slain, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France, How Oliver Was Slain, sentence 13

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But Roland cried again, "Strike home, men; have no mercy on these heathen dogs."

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**Who acts:** Roland · **What happens:** cry, strike, have · **To what, where:** men, mercy · **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 Oliver Was Slain. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Roland), 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:pg75339:33:13
# text = But Roland cried again, "Strike home, men; have no mercy on these heathen dogs."
1	But	but	CCONJ	CC	_	3	cc	_	_
2	Roland	Roland	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
3	cried	cry	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	again	again	ADV	RB	_	3	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	7	punct	_	_
6	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	7	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	Strike	strike	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	3	conj	_	_
8	home	home	ADV	RB	_	7	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
10	men	man	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	7	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	12	punct	_	_
12	have	have	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	3	parataxis	_	_
13	no	no	DET	DT	PronType=Neg	14	det	_	_
14	mercy	mercy	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	obj	_	_
15	on	on	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
16	these	this	DET	DT	Number=Plur|PronType=Dem	18	det	_	_
17	heathen	heathen	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	compound	_	_
18	dogs	dog	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	14	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	12	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	12	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **cry** *speech: express* | past | Roland |  |  |  | again |  | vn manner\_speaking-37.3 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 2 | **strike** *in a quote* | infinitive | Roland *not said here* | men |  |  |  | home *property* | vn sound\_emission-43.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 3 | **have** *in a quote* | infinitive |  | no mercy |  |  |  | on this heathen dogs | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent mercy=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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