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title: See, here is his sword; 'tis a noble spoil that I shall carry back w… — Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of F… · tree and pragmatics
description: See, here is his sword; 'tis a noble spoil that I shall carry back with me to Arabia." Who acts: you, noble spoil. 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 8

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See, here is his sword; 'tis a noble spoil that I shall carry back with me to Arabia."

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**Who acts:** you, noble spoil · **What happens:** see, be, ti, carry back · **To what, where:** sword, noble spoil, Arabia

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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 (you, noble spoil), 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:pg75339:35:8
# text = See, here is his sword; 'tis a noble spoil that I shall carry back with me to Arabia."
1	See	see	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	6	punct	_	_
3	here	here	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	6	advmod	_	_
4	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	6	cop	_	_
5	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	6	nmod:poss	_	_
6	sword	sword	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	9	punct	_	_
8	'	'	PUNCT	``	_	9	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	tis	ti	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	1	parataxis	_	_
10	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
11	noble	noble	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	12	amod	_	_
12	spoil	spoil	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obj	_	_
13	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	16	nsubj	_	_
14	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	16	nsubj	_	_
15	shall	shall	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	16	aux	_	_
16	carry	carry	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	12	acl:relcl	_	_
17	back	back	ADV	RB	_	16	advmod	_	_
18	with	with	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
19	me	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	16	obl	_	_
20	to	to	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
21	Arabia	Arabia	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	16	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	1	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	1	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **see** | imperative | you *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer |
| 2 | **is a** | present |  | Roland's sword |  | here |  | Roland *nmod:poss* | tree rules |
| 3 | **ti** | present |  | a noble spoil |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 4 | **carry back** | shall | a noble spoil |  | Arabia |  |  | with me; I *nsubj* | vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent to arabia=Destination |

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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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