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title: Thus did Roland again charge the enemy, his good sword Durendal in h… — Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of F… · tree and pragmatics
description: Thus did Roland again charge the enemy, his good sword Durendal in his hand; as the stag flies before the hounds, so did the heathen fly before Roland. " Who acts: Roland, stag. A sentence of «Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France» by Alfred John Church, How Oliver Was Slain, with it
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# Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France, How Oliver Was Slain, sentence 9

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Thus did Roland again charge the enemy, his good sword Durendal in his hand; as the stag flies before the hounds, so did the heathen fly before Roland. "

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**Who acts:** Roland, stag · **What happens:** charge, fly, do · **To what, where:** enemy, hand, heathen fly

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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, stag), 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:pg75339:33:9
# text = Thus did Roland again charge the enemy, his good sword Durendal in his hand; as the stag flies before the hounds, so did the heathen fly before Roland. "
1	Thus	thus	ADV	RB	_	5	advmod	_	_
2	did	do	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	aux	_	_
3	Roland	Roland	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	_
4	again	again	ADV	RB	_	5	advmod	_	_
5	charge	charge	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	enemy	enemy	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
9	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	11	nmod:poss	_	_
10	good	good	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	11	amod	_	_
11	sword	sword	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	conj	_	_
12	Durendal	Durendal	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	11	appos	_	_
13	in	in	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
14	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	15	nmod:poss	_	_
15	hand	hand	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	20	punct	_	_
17	as	as	SCONJ	IN	_	20	mark	_	_
18	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	19	det	_	_
19	stag	stag	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	nsubj	_	_
20	flies	fly	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	5	conj	_	_
21	before	before	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
22	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	23	det	_	_
23	hounds	hound	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	20	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	26	punct	_	_
25	so	so	ADV	RB	_	26	advmod	_	_
26	did	do	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	advcl	_	_
27	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	29	det	_	_
28	heathen	heathen	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	29	amod	_	_
29	fly	fly	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	26	obj	_	_
30	before	before	ADP	IN	_	31	case	_	_
31	Roland	Roland	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	26	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
32	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
33	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	5	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
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## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **charge** | past · do-support | Roland | the enemy and enemy's good sword |  | enemy's hand | again | thus *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **fly** | present | the stag |  |  |  | before the hounds |  | vn spatial\_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme before hound=Location |
| 3 | **do** | past | Roland *not said here* | the heathen fly |  |  | before Roland |  | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent fly=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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