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title: Then four hundred of them, the strongest and most valiant knights th… — Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of F… · tree and pragmatics
description: Then four hundred of them, the strongest and most valiant knights that were in the army of the heathen, gathered themselves into one company, and made a yet fiercer assault on Roland. Who acts: valiant knights. A sentence of «Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France» by Alfred John Chur
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# Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France, How Archbishop Turpin Died, sentence 37

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Then four hundred of them, the strongest and most valiant knights that were in the army of the heathen, gathered themselves into one company, and made a yet fiercer assault on Roland.

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**Who acts:** valiant knights · **What happens:** be, gather, make · **To what, where:** army, hills, fiercer assault, Roland, four hundred

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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 (valiant knights), 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:pg75339:34:37
# text = Then four hundred of them, the strongest and most valiant knights that were in the army of the heathen, gathered themselves into one company, and made a yet fiercer assault on Roland.
1	Then	then	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	3	advmod	_	_
2	four	four	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	3	compound	_	_
3	hundred	hundred	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	0	root	_	_
4	of	of	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
5	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	8	punct	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	strongest	strong	ADJ	JJS	Degree=Sup	3	acl:relcl	_	_
9	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	12	cc	_	_
10	most	most	ADV	RBS	Degree=Sup	11	advmod	_	_
11	valiant	valiant	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	12	amod	_	_
12	knights	knight	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	8	conj	_	_
13	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	17	nsubj	_	_
14	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	17	cop	_	_
15	in	in	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
16	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
17	army	army	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	acl:relcl	_	_
18	of	of	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
19	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	20	det	_	_
20	heathen	heathen	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	22	punct	_	_
22	gathered	gather	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	17	parataxis	_	_
23	themselves	themselves	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs|Reflex=Yes	22	obj	_	_
24	into	into	ADP	IN	_	26	case	_	_
25	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	26	nummod	_	_
26	company	company	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	29	punct	_	_
28	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	29	cc	_	_
29	made	make	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	22	conj	_	_
30	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	33	det	_	_
31	yet	yet	ADV	RB	_	32	advmod	_	_
32	fiercer	fierce	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	33	amod	_	_
33	assault	assault	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	29	obj	_	_
34	on	on	ADP	IN	_	35	case	_	_
35	Roland	Roland	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	33	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
36	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
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## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | past | valiant knights |  |  | the army |  | of the heathen | tree rules |
| 2 | **gather** | past |  | hills *= hill* |  |  |  | into one company | vn shake-22.3-2 «NP V NP PP»: agent=Agent themselves=Patient into company=Co-Patient |
| 3 | **make** | past |  | a fiercer assault |  | Roland |  |  | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset assault=Product |

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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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