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title: Well I mind me of the day when a voice that seemed to come from heav… — Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of F… · tree and pragmatics
description: Well I mind me of the day when a voice that seemed to come from heaven bade King Charles give thee to a valiant captain; and forthwith the good King girded it on my side. Who acts: I, voice, King, good King. A sentence of «Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France» by Alfred John Church,
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# Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France, The Death of Roland, sentence 28

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Well I mind me of the day when a voice that seemed to come from heaven bade King Charles give thee to a valiant captain; and forthwith the good King girded it on my side.

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**Who acts:** I, voice, King, good King · **What happens:** mind, seem, come, give, forthwith, gird · **To what, where:** me, heaven bade, thee, voice, side

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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, voice, King, good King), 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:pg75339:35:28
# text = Well I mind me of the day when a voice that seemed to come from heaven bade King Charles give thee to a valiant captain; and forthwith the good King girded it on my side.
1	Well	well	INTJ	UH	_	3	discourse	_	_
2	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
3	mind	mind	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	me	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	3	obj	_	_
5	of	of	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	day	day	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	_
8	when	when	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	12	advmod	_	_
9	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
10	voice	voice	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	nsubj	_	_
11	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	12	nsubj	_	_
12	seemed	seem	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	advcl	_	_
13	to	to	PART	TO	_	14	mark	_	_
14	come	come	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	12	xcomp	_	_
15	from	from	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
16	heaven	heaven	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	compound	_	_
17	bade	bade	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	obl	_	_
18	King	King	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	20	nsubj	_	_
19	Charles	Charles	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	18	flat	_	_
20	give	give	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	17	acl:relcl	_	_
21	thee	thou	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch	20	iobj	_	_
22	to	to	ADP	IN	_	25	case	_	_
23	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	25	det	_	_
24	valiant	valiant	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	25	amod	_	_
25	captain	captain	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	28	punct	_	_
27	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	28	cc	_	_
28	forthwith	forthwith	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	_
29	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	31	det	_	_
30	good	good	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	31	amod	_	_
31	King	King	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	32	nsubj	_	_
32	girded	gird	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	28	ccomp	_	_
33	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	32	obj	_	_
34	on	on	ADP	IN	_	36	case	_	_
35	my	my	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	36	nmod:poss	_	_
36	side	side	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	32	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
37	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **mind** | present | I | me |  |  | day |  | vn caring-75.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent i=Theme |
| 2 | **seem** | past | a voice |  |  |  |  | that *nsubj* | vn seem-109-1-1-1 «NP V S\_INF»: agent=Theme clause=Attribute |
| 3 | **come** | to-infinitive | a voice *not said here* |  |  | heaven bade |  |  | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme from bade=Initial\_Location |
| 4 | **give** | present | King | heaven bade *not said here* | thee |  |  | to a valiant captain | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent thou=Theme to captain=Recipient |
| 5 | **forthwith** | past | I *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 6 | **gird** | past | the good King | voice |  | my side |  |  | tree rules |

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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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