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title: This castle Reynaud made very strong with towers and the like, and c… — Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of F… · tree and pragmatics
description: This castle Reynaud made very strong with towers and the like, and called it Montalban; and for a while the brothers had peace. Who acts: castle, brothers. 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 
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# Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France, The Coming of Roland, sentence 8

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This castle Reynaud made very strong with towers and the like, and called it Montalban; and for a while the brothers had peace.

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**Who acts:** castle, brothers · **What happens:** make, call, have · **To what, where:** castle, peace · **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 (castle, brothers), 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:pg75339:6:8
# text = This castle Reynaud made very strong with towers and the like, and called it Montalban; and for a while the brothers had peace.
1	This	this	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	2	det	_	_
2	castle	castle	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
3	Reynaud	Reynaud	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	appos	_	_
4	made	make	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	very	very	ADV	RB	_	6	advmod	_	_
6	strong	strong	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	xcomp	_	_
7	with	with	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
8	towers	tower	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	obl	_	_
9	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	11	cc	_	_
10	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
11	like	like	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
13	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	14	cc	_	_
14	called	call	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	parataxis	_	_
15	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	14	obj	_	_
16	Montalban	Montalban	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	14	xcomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	24	punct	_	_
18	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	24	cc	_	_
19	for	for	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
20	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	21	det	_	_
21	while	while	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	obl	_	_
22	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	23	det	_	_
23	brothers	brother	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	24	nsubj	_	_
24	had	have	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	conj	_	_
25	peace	peace	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **make** | past | this castle |  |  |  |  | strong *property* | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset |
| 2 | **call** | past |  | castle |  |  |  | Montalban *xcomp* | vn initiate\_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent it=Recipient |
| 3 | **have** | past | the brothers | peace |  |  | while |  | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent peace=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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