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title: That I will do right willingly," answered Roland, "seeing that Reyna… — Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of F… · tree and pragmatics
description: That I will do right willingly," answered Roland, "seeing that Reynaud slew my cousin, Berthelot." Who acts: That, Reynaud. A sentence of «Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France» by Alfred John Church, The Coming 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 Coming of Roland, sentence 21

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That I will do right willingly," answered Roland, "seeing that Reynaud slew my cousin, Berthelot."

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**Who acts:** That, Reynaud · **What happens:** do, answer, see, slay · **To what, where:** Roland, cousin · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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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 (That, Reynaud), 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:pg75339:6:21
# text = That I will do right willingly," answered Roland, "seeing that Reynaud slew my cousin, Berthelot."
1	That	that	PRON	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	4	nsubj	_	_
2	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	4	nsubj	_	_
3	will	will	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	4	aux	_	_
4	do	do	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
5	right	right	ADV	RB	_	6	advmod	_	_
6	willingly	willingly	ADV	RB	_	4	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	9	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	9	punct	_	_
9	answered	answer	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	parataxis	_	_
10	Roland	Roland	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	9	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
12	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	13	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	seeing	see	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	9	advcl	_	_
14	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	16	mark	_	_
15	Reynaud	Reynaud	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	16	nsubj	_	_
16	slew	slay	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	13	advcl	_	_
17	my	my	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	18	nmod:poss	_	_
18	cousin	cousin	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	20	punct	_	_
20	Berthelot	Berthelot	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	18	appos	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **do** | future | That |  |  |  |  | I *nsubj*; willingly *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **answer** *speech: assert* *in a quote* | past |  |  | Roland |  |  |  | vn reciprocate-112-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent roland=Eventuality |
| 3 | **see** | gerund |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer |
| 4 | **slay** | past | Reynaud | my cousin |  |  |  |  | vn murder-42.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent cousin=Patient |

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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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