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title: Not many days after, the King of the Saracens came to Bordeaux, and… — Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of F… · tree and pragmatics
description: Not many days after, the King of the Saracens came to Bordeaux, and Reynaud and his comrades went forth from the city to attack him. Who acts: King, 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 an
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# Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France, The Coming of Roland, sentence 4

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Not many days after, the King of the Saracens came to Bordeaux, and Reynaud and his comrades went forth from the city to attack him.

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**Who acts:** King, Reynaud · **What happens:** come, go, attack · **To what, where:** Bordeaux, city, King

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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 (King, 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:pg75339:6:4
# text = Not many days after, the King of the Saracens came to Bordeaux, and Reynaud and his comrades went forth from the city to attack him.
1	Not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	2	advmod	_	_
2	many	many	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	days	day	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	11	obl:unmarked	_	_
4	after	after	ADV	RB	_	3	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	7	punct	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	King	King	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	11	nsubj	_	_
8	of	of	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
9	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
10	Saracens	Saracen	PROPN	NNPS	Number=Plur	7	nmod	_	_
11	came	come	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
12	to	to	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
13	Bordeaux	Bordeaux	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	11	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	20	punct	_	_
15	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	20	cc	_	_
16	Reynaud	Reynaud	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	20	nsubj	_	_
17	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	19	cc	_	_
18	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	19	nmod:poss	_	_
19	comrades	comrade	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	16	conj	_	_
20	went	go	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	11	conj	_	_
21	forth	forth	ADV	RB	_	20	advmod	_	_
22	from	from	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	_
23	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	24	det	_	_
24	city	city	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	obl	_	_
25	to	to	PART	TO	_	26	mark	_	_
26	attack	attack	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	20	advcl	_	_
27	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	26	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	11	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **come** | past | the King of the Saracens |  |  | Bordeaux | day |  | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme to bordeaux=Initial\_Location |
| 2 | **go** | past | Reynaud and King's comrades |  |  | the city |  | forth *property* | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme from city=Initial\_Location |
| 3 | **attack** | to-infinitive | Reynaud and King's comrades *not said here* | King |  |  |  |  | vn attack-60.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=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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