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title: First he slew Beuvon of Burgundy, and Ivan, and Gerard and other two… — Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of F… · tree and pragmatics
description: First he slew Beuvon of Burgundy, and Ivan, and Gerard and other two: five knights he met, five he slew, but the sixth was the Count Roland himself. " Who acts: Roland, sixth. A sentence of «Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France» by Alfred John Church, How Oliver Was Slain, with its 
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# Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France, How Oliver Was Slain, sentence 16

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First he slew Beuvon of Burgundy, and Ivan, and Gerard and other two: five knights he met, five he slew, but the sixth was the Count Roland himself. "

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**Who acts:** Roland, sixth · **What happens:** slay, meet, be · **To what, where:** Beuvon, five knights, Count Roland

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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, sixth), 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:pg75339:33:16
# text = First he slew Beuvon of Burgundy, and Ivan, and Gerard and other two: five knights he met, five he slew, but the sixth was the Count Roland himself. "
1	First	first	ADV	RB	NumForm=Word|NumType=Ord	3	advmod	_	_
2	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
3	slew	slay	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	Beuvon	Beuvon	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	obj	_	_
5	of	of	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
6	Burgundy	Burgundy	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	9	punct	_	_
8	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	9	cc	_	_
9	Ivan	Ivan	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
11	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	12	cc	_	_
12	Gerard	Gerard	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	9	appos	_	_
13	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	15	cc	_	_
14	other	other	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	15	amod	_	_
15	two	two	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	9	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	18	punct	_	_
17	five	five	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	18	nummod	_	_
18	knights	knight	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	obl	_	_
19	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	20	nsubj	_	_
20	met	meet	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	18	acl:relcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	22	punct	_	_
22	five	five	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	18	appos	_	_
23	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	24	nsubj	_	_
24	slew	slay	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	22	acl:relcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	32	punct	_	_
26	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	32	cc	_	_
27	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	28	det	_	_
28	sixth	sixth	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	32	nsubj	_	_
29	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	32	cop	_	_
30	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	32	det	_	_
31	Count	Count	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	32	compound	_	_
32	Roland	Roland	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	parataxis	_	_
33	himself	himself	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Emp|Reflex=Yes	32	nmod:unmarked	_	SpaceAfter=No
34	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	32	punct	_	_
35	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	32	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **slay** | past | Roland | Beuvon of Burgundy |  |  |  | Ivan *obl*; five knights *obl*; first *property* | vn murder-42.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent beuvon=Patient |
| 2 | **meet** | past | Roland | five knights *not said here* |  |  |  |  | vn meet-36.3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent knight=Co-Agent |
| 3 | **slay** | past | Roland |  |  |  |  |  | vn murder-42.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
| 4 | **is a** | past | the sixth | the Count Roland |  |  |  | Roland *nmod:unmarked* | 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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