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title: Loud rang the steel, but neither brake nor splintered. — Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of F… · tree and pragmatics
description: Loud rang the steel, but neither brake nor splintered. Who acts: Loud. 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 pragmatics of every clause.
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# Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France, The Death of Roland, sentence 26

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Loud rang the steel, but neither brake nor splintered.

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**Who acts:** Loud · **What happens:** ring, splinter · **To what, where:** steel

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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 (Loud), 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:pg75339:35:26
# text = Loud rang the steel, but neither brake nor splintered.
1	Loud	Loud	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	nsubj	_	_
2	rang	ring	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	steel	steel	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	8	punct	_	_
6	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	8	cc	_	_
7	neither	neither	DET	DT	PronType=Neg	8	det	_	_
8	brake	brake	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	parataxis	_	_
9	nor	nor	CCONJ	CC	Polarity=Neg	10	cc	_	_
10	splintered	splinter	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	2	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **ring** | past | Loud | the steel |  |  |  | neither brake *parataxis* | vn sound\_emission-43.2 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location steel=Theme |
| 2 | **splinter** | past | Loud *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn break-45.1 «NP.patient V»: agent=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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