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" **Who acts:** counsel, thirty squires · **What happens:** anger, doubt, say, come, array, follow · **To what, where:** King, young man, palace, obeisance · **Speech:** someone speaks here This is a sentence of «Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France» by Alfred John Church, The Coming 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 (counsel, thirty squires), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. **Mova's own parse.** This tree may be wrong. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = book:pg75339:6:16 # text = This counsel angered the King greatly, but while he doubted what he should say, there came to the palace a young man, very fair, and well arrayed, with thirty squires following him, and did obeisance to the King. " 1 This this DET DT Number=Sing|PronType=Dem 2 det _ _ 2 counsel counsel NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 nsubj _ _ 3 angered anger VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 4 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 5 det _ _ 5 King King PROPN NNP Number=Sing 3 obj _ _ 6 greatly greatly ADV RB _ 3 advmod _ SpaceAfter=No 7 , , PUNCT , _ 11 punct _ _ 8 but but CCONJ CC _ 11 cc _ _ 9 while while SCONJ IN _ 11 mark _ _ 10 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 11 nsubj _ _ 11 doubted doubt VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 3 parataxis _ _ 12 what what PRON WP PronType=Int 15 obj _ _ 13 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 15 nsubj _ _ 14 should should AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 15 aux _ _ 15 say say VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 11 ccomp _ SpaceAfter=No 16 , , PUNCT , _ 18 punct _ _ 17 there there PRON EX PronType=Dem 18 expl _ _ 18 came come VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 3 parataxis _ _ 19 to to ADP IN _ 21 case _ _ 20 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 21 det _ _ 21 palace palace NOUN NN Number=Sing 18 obl _ _ 22 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 24 det _ _ 23 young young ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 24 amod _ _ 24 man man NOUN NN Number=Sing 18 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 25 , , PUNCT , _ 27 punct _ _ 26 very very ADV RB _ 27 advmod _ _ 27 fair fair ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 18 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 28 , , PUNCT , _ 31 punct _ _ 29 and and CCONJ CC _ 31 cc _ _ 30 well well ADV RB Degree=Pos 31 advmod _ _ 31 arrayed array VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 27 advcl _ SpaceAfter=No 32 , , PUNCT , _ 35 punct _ _ 33 with with ADP IN _ 35 case _ _ 34 thirty thirty NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 35 nummod _ _ 35 squires squire NOUN NNS Number=Plur 31 obl _ _ 36 following follow VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 35 acl _ _ 37 him he PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 36 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 38 , , PUNCT , _ 40 punct _ _ 39 and and CCONJ CC _ 40 cc _ _ 40 did do VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 3 conj _ _ 41 obeisance obeisance NOUN NN Number=Sing 40 obj _ _ 42 to to ADP IN _ 44 case _ _ 43 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 44 det _ _ 44 King King PROPN NNP Number=Sing 40 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 45 . . PUNCT . _ 3 punct _ _ 46 " " PUNCT '' _ 3 punct _ SpaceAfter=No ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **anger** | past | this counsel | the King | | | | greatly *property* | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus king=Experiencer | | 2 | **doubt** | past | counsel | | | | | | vn conjecture-29.5 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme | | 3 | **say** *speech: assert* | should | counsel | | | | | what *obj* | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent what=Topic | | 4 | **come** | past | | a young man | | the palace; there | | | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme to palace=Initial\_Location | | 5 | **array** | participle | | | | | | with thirty squires; well *property* | tree rules | | 6 | **follow** | gerund | thirty squires *not said here* | King | | | | | vn chase-51.6 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Theme | | 7 | **do** | past | this counsel *not said here* | obeisance | | | | to the King | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent obeisance=Eventuality | 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. **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. - ← previous: [sentence 15](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg75339/6/15/) - next →: [sentence 17](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg75339/6/17/) - ↑ back to [The Coming of Roland](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg75339/6/)