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title: Many a battle I have won with your help; and many a kingdom have I c… — Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of F… · tree and pragmatics
description: Many a battle I have won with your help; and many a kingdom have I conquered, that my Lord Charles possesses this day. Who acts: I, Lord, your. A sentence of «Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France» by Alfred John Church, The Death of Roland, with its dependency tree and the pragmatic
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# Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France, The Death of Roland, sentence 22

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Many a battle I have won with your help; and many a kingdom have I conquered, that my Lord Charles possesses this day.

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**Who acts:** I, Lord, your · **What happens:** win, conquer, possess, help · **To what, where:** battle, many

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This is a sentence of «Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France» by Alfred John Church, The Death of Roland. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (I, Lord, your), 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:pg75339:35:22
# text = Many a battle I have won with your help; and many a kingdom have I conquered, that my Lord Charles possesses this day.
1	Many	many	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
2	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	battle	battle	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	appos	_	_
4	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	6	nsubj	_	_
5	have	have	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	6	aux	_	_
6	won	win	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	3	acl:relcl	_	_
7	with	with	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
8	your	your	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	9	nmod:poss	_	_
9	help	help	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	17	punct	_	_
11	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	17	cc	_	_
12	many	many	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	17	nsubj:pass	_	_
13	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
14	kingdom	kingdom	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	nsubj:pass	_	_
15	have	have	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	17	aux	_	_
16	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	17	nsubj	_	_
17	conquered	conquer	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	1	parataxis	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	23	punct	_	_
19	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	23	mark	_	_
20	my	my	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	21	nmod:poss	_	_
21	Lord	Lord	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	23	nsubj	_	_
22	Charles	Charles	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	21	flat	_	_
23	possesses	possess	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	17	conj	_	_
24	this	this	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	25	det	_	_
25	day	day	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	obl:unmarked	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	1	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **win** | present · perfect | I | a battle *not said here* |  |  |  | with your help | vn succeed-74-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent battle=Eventuality |
| 2 | **conquer** | present · perfect · passive |  | many |  |  |  | a kingdom *nsubj:pass*; I *nsubj* | vn subjugate-42.3 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient |
| 3 | **possess** | present | my Lord |  |  |  | day |  | vn own-100.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot |
| 5 | **help** |  | your |  |  |  |  |  | nom help «act transitive»: poss=agent |

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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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