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title: Walter had but that moment come down from the hills where he had bee… — Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of F… · tree and pragmatics
description: Walter had but that moment come down from the hills where he had been fighting so fiercely with the heathen that all his men were dead; now he cried to Roland for help. " Who acts: Walter, moment, heathen. A sentence of «Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France» by Alfred John Church, H
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# Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France, How Archbishop Turpin Died, sentence 3

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Walter had but that moment come down from the hills where he had been fighting so fiercely with the heathen that all his men were dead; now he cried to Roland for help. "

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**Who acts:** Walter, moment, heathen · **What happens:** have, come down, fight, be, cry · **To what, where:** hills, Roland

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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 (Walter, moment, heathen), 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:pg75339:34:3
# text = Walter had but that moment come down from the hills where he had been fighting so fiercely with the heathen that all his men were dead; now he cried to Roland for help. "
1	Walter	Walter	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	nsubj	_	_
2	had	have	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	6	cc	_	_
4	that	that	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	5	det	_	_
5	moment	moment	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nsubj	_	_
6	come	come	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	2	conj	_	_
7	down	down	ADV	RB	_	6	advmod	_	_
8	from	from	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
9	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
10	hills	hill	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	obl	_	_
11	where	where	ADV	WRB	PronType=Rel	15	advmod	_	_
12	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	15	nsubj	_	_
13	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	15	aux	_	_
14	been	be	AUX	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	15	aux	_	_
15	fighting	fight	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	6	advcl	_	_
16	so	so	ADV	RB	_	17	advmod	_	_
17	fiercely	fiercely	ADV	RB	_	15	advmod	_	_
18	with	with	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
19	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	20	det	_	_
20	heathen	heathen	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	obl	_	_
21	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	26	nsubj	_	_
22	all	all	DET	PDT	PronType=Tot	24	det:predet	_	_
23	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	24	nmod:poss	_	_
24	men	man	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	26	nsubj	_	_
25	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	26	cop	_	_
26	dead	dead	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	20	acl:relcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	30	punct	_	_
28	now	now	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	30	advmod	_	_
29	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	30	nsubj	_	_
30	cried	cry	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	2	conj	_	_
31	to	to	ADP	IN	_	32	case	_	_
32	Roland	Roland	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	30	obl	_	_
33	for	for	ADP	IN	_	34	case	_	_
34	help	help	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	30	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
35	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
36	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	2	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **have** | past | Walter |  |  |  |  |  | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **come down** | infinitive | that moment |  |  | the hills |  | down *property* | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme from hill=Initial\_Location |
| 3 | **fight** | past · perfect · progressive | Walter |  |  |  |  | with the heathen; fiercely *property* | vn battle-36.4-1 «NP V PP.co-agent»: agent=Agent with heathen=Co-Agent |
| 4 | **is** | past | the heathen |  |  |  |  | Walter's men *nsubj*; dead *property* | tree rules |
| 5 | **cry** *speech: express* | past | Walter |  | Roland |  | now | for help | vn manner\_speaking-37.3 «NP V PP.recipient»: agent=Agent to roland=Recipient |

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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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