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" **Who acts:** I, you, horse, best horses, your · **What happens:** counsel, make, give, prevail, race, crown · **To what, where:** you, proclamation, hundred marks, crown, gold, fine silver 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 (I, you, horse, best horses), 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:pg75339:6:28 # text = I counsel you, therefore, to make a proclamation that there shall be a race of all the best horses in your realm, and that you will give to the horse that shall prevail your crown of gold, and five hundred marks of fine silver, and a hundred rolls of silk." " 1 I I PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 2 nsubj _ _ 2 counsel counsel VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 3 you you PRON PRP Case=Acc|Person=2|PronType=Prs 2 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 4 , , PUNCT , _ 5 punct _ _ 5 therefore therefore ADV RB _ 2 advmod _ SpaceAfter=No 6 , , PUNCT , _ 8 punct _ _ 7 to to PART TO _ 8 mark _ _ 8 make make VERB VB Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin 2 parataxis _ _ 9 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 10 det _ _ 10 proclamation proclamation NOUN NN Number=Sing 8 obj _ _ 11 that that PRON WDT PronType=Rel 14 nsubj _ _ 12 there there PRON EX PronType=Dem 14 expl _ _ 13 shall shall AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 14 aux _ _ 14 be be AUX VB VerbForm=Inf 10 acl _ _ 15 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 16 det _ _ 16 race race NOUN NN Number=Sing 14 nsubj _ _ 17 of of ADP IN _ 21 case _ _ 18 all all DET PDT PronType=Tot 21 det:predet _ _ 19 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 21 det _ _ 20 best good ADJ JJS Degree=Sup 21 amod _ _ 21 horses horse NOUN NNS Number=Plur 16 nmod _ _ 22 in in ADP IN _ 24 case _ _ 23 your your PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 24 nmod:poss _ _ 24 realm realm NOUN NN Number=Sing 21 nmod _ SpaceAfter=No 25 , , PUNCT , _ 30 punct _ _ 26 and and CCONJ CC _ 30 cc _ _ 27 that that SCONJ IN _ 30 mark _ _ 28 you you PRON PRP Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs 30 nsubj _ _ 29 will will AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 30 aux _ _ 30 give give VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 8 parataxis _ _ 31 to to ADP IN _ 33 case _ _ 32 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 33 det _ _ 33 horse horse NOUN NN Number=Sing 30 obl _ _ 34 that that PRON WDT PronType=Rel 36 nsubj _ _ 35 shall shall AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 36 aux _ _ 36 prevail prevail VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 33 acl:relcl _ _ 37 your your PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 38 nmod:poss _ _ 38 crown crown NOUN NN Number=Sing 36 obj _ _ 39 of of ADP IN _ 40 case _ _ 40 gold gold NOUN NN Number=Sing 38 nmod _ SpaceAfter=No 41 , , PUNCT , _ 45 punct _ _ 42 and and CCONJ CC _ 45 cc _ _ 43 five five NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 44 compound _ _ 44 hundred hundred NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 45 nummod _ _ 45 marks mark NOUN NNS Number=Plur 30 iobj _ _ 46 of of ADP IN _ 48 case _ _ 47 fine fine ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 48 amod _ _ 48 silver silver NOUN NN Number=Sing 45 nmod _ SpaceAfter=No 49 , , PUNCT , _ 53 punct _ _ 50 and and CCONJ CC _ 53 cc _ _ 51 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 52 det _ _ 52 hundred hundred NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 53 nummod _ _ 53 rolls roll NOUN NNS Number=Plur 30 conj _ _ 54 of of ADP IN _ 55 case _ _ 55 silk silk NOUN NN Number=Sing 53 nmod _ SpaceAfter=No 56 . . PUNCT . _ 2 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 57 " " PUNCT '' _ 2 punct _ _ 58 " " PUNCT '' _ 2 punct _ SpaceAfter=No ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **counsel** *speech: other* | present | I | | you | | | therefore *property* | vn advise-37.9-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent you=Recipient | | 2 | **make** | to-infinitive | | a proclamation | | | | | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset proclamation=Product | | 3 | **give** | future | you | | hundred marks of fine silver | | | to the horse; hundred rolls of silk *conj* | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent mark=Theme to horse=Recipient | | 4 | **prevail** | shall | the horse | your crown of gold | | | | | tree rules | | 5 | **race** | | all best horses in your realm | | | | | | nom race «event intransitive»: of=agent | | 6 | **crown** | | your | gold | | | | | nom crown «communication transitive»: poss=agent of=patient | | 7 | **mark** | | | fine silver | | | | | nom mark «cognition transitive»: of=patient | | 8 | **roll** | | | silk | | | | | nom roll «event transitive»: of=patient | 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 27](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg75339/6/27/) - next →: [sentence 29](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg75339/6/29/) - ↑ back to [The Coming of Roland](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg75339/6/)