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title: Nevertheless, now that he has lost the Count Roland his nephew, he c… — Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of F… · tree and pragmatics
description: Nevertheless, now that he has lost the Count Roland his nephew, he can scarcely hold his ground before us. Who acts: Emir. A sentence of «Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France» by Alfred John Church, How Charlemagne Sought Vengeance, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of eve
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# Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France, How Charlemagne Sought Vengeance, sentence 128

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Nevertheless, now that he has lost the Count Roland his nephew, he can scarcely hold his ground before us.

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**Who acts:** Emir · **What happens:** lose, hold · **To what, where:** Count Roland, ground

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This is a sentence of «Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France» by Alfred John Church, How Charlemagne Sought Vengeance. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Emir), 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:pg75339:36:128
# text = Nevertheless, now that he has lost the Count Roland his nephew, he can scarcely hold his ground before us.
1	Nevertheless	nevertheless	ADV	RB	_	7	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	1	punct	_	_
3	now	now	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	7	advmod	_	_
4	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	7	mark	_	_
5	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	7	nsubj	_	_
6	has	have	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	7	aux	_	_
7	lost	lose	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	0	root	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
9	Count	Count	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	10	compound	_	_
10	Roland	Roland	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	7	obj	_	_
11	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	12	nmod:poss	_	_
12	nephew	nephew	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	_
14	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	17	nsubj	_	_
15	can	can	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	17	aux	_	_
16	scarcely	scarcely	ADV	RB	_	17	advmod	_	_
17	hold	hold	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	7	advcl	_	_
18	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	19	nmod:poss	_	_
19	ground	ground	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	obj	_	_
20	before	before	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
21	us	we	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs	17	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	7	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **lose** | present · perfect | Emir | the Count Roland |  |  | now | Emir's nephew *obj*; nevertheless *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **hold** | can | Emir | Emir's ground |  |  | before us | scarcely *property* | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent ground=Theme before we=Location |

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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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