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title: To shew, forsooth, to Charlemagne and the men of France, that he die… — Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of F… · tree and pragmatics
description: To shew, forsooth, to Charlemagne and the men of France, that he died in the midst of victory. Who acts: face. 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 40

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To shew, forsooth, to Charlemagne and the men of France, that he died in the midst of victory.

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**Who acts:** face · **What happens:** shew, die · **To what, where:** Charlemagne

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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 (face), 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:pg75339:35:40
# text = To shew, forsooth, to Charlemagne and the men of France, that he died in the midst of victory.
1	To	to	PART	TO	_	2	mark	_	_
2	shew	shew	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	16	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	4	punct	_	_
4	forsooth	forsooth	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	2	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	7	punct	_	_
6	to	to	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
7	Charlemagne	Charlemagne	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	obl	_	_
8	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	10	cc	_	_
9	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
10	men	man	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	7	conj	_	_
11	of	of	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
12	France	France	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	10	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
14	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	16	mark	_	_
15	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	16	nsubj	_	_
16	died	die	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
17	in	in	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
18	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	19	det	_	_
19	midst	midst	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	obl	_	_
20	of	of	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
21	victory	victory	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	16	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **shew** | to-infinitive | face *not said here* |  | Charlemagne and the men of France |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **die** | past | face |  |  |  |  | in the midst of victory | vn calibratable\_cos-45.6.1 «NP.patient V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient in midst=Attribute |

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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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