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title: Strike! strike for Charles and the Right!" cried all the men of Fran… — Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of F… · tree and pragmatics
description: Strike! strike for Charles and the Right!" cried all the men of France when they saw the Persian fall. Who acts: Strike strike, men. 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 pragmat
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# Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France, How Charlemagne Sought Vengeance, sentence 150

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Strike! strike for Charles and the Right!" cried all the men of France when they saw the Persian fall.

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**Who acts:** Strike strike, men · **What happens:** cry, see · **To what, where:** men, Persian fall

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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 (Strike strike, men), 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:pg75339:36:150
# text = Strike! strike for Charles and the Right!" cried all the men of France when they saw the Persian fall.
1	Strike	strike	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	!	!	PUNCT	.	_	1	punct	_	_
3	strike	strike	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	nsubj	_	_
4	for	for	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
5	Charles	Charles	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	nmod	_	_
6	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	8	cc	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	Right	right	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	!	!	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	3	punct	_	_
11	cried	cry	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
12	all	all	DET	PDT	PronType=Tot	14	det:predet	_	_
13	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
14	men	man	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	11	obj	_	_
15	of	of	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
16	France	France	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	14	nmod	_	_
17	when	when	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	19	advmod	_	_
18	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	19	nsubj	_	_
19	saw	see	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	11	advcl	_	_
20	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	22	det	_	_
21	Persian	persian	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	22	amod	_	_
22	fall	fall	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	11	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **cry** *speech: express* *in a quote* | past | Strike strike for Charles | all men of France |  |  |  |  | vn manner\_speaking-37.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent man=Topic |
| 2 | **see** *in a quote* | past | men *= man* | the Persian fall |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer fall=Stimulus |

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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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