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# Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France, How Archbishop Turpin Died, sentence 21

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Five-and-twenty did Roland slay, and Walter slew six, and the Archbishop five.

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**Who acts:** Roland, Walter · **What happens:** slay · **To what, where:** twenty, six, Five

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This is a sentence of «Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France» by Alfred John Church, How Archbishop Turpin Died. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Roland, Walter), 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:pg75339:34:21
# text = Five-and-twenty did Roland slay, and Walter slew six, and the Archbishop five.
1	Five	five	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	8	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	8	cc	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	5	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	twenty	twenty	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	8	obl	_	_
6	did	do	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	8	aux	_	_
7	Roland	Roland	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	8	nsubj	_	_
8	slay	slay	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	1	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
10	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	12	cc	_	_
11	Walter	Walter	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	12	nsubj	_	_
12	slew	slay	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	8	conj	_	_
13	six	six	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	12	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	_
15	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	17	cc	_	_
16	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
17	Archbishop	archbishop	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	obl	_	_
18	five	five	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	17	flat	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	1	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **slay** | past · do-support | Roland | twenty |  |  |  |  | vn murder-42.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **slay** | past | Walter | six |  |  |  | the Archbishop *obl* | vn murder-42.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent six=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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