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title: Roland, liking this talk but little, rode forth to meet Reynaud. — Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of F… · tree and pragmatics
description: Roland, liking this talk but little, rode forth to meet Reynaud. Who acts: Roland. A sentence of «Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France» by Alfred John Church, Of the Craft of Mawgis, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France, Of the Craft of Mawgis, sentence 44

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Roland, liking this talk but little, rode forth to meet Reynaud.

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**Who acts:** Roland · **What happens:** like, ride, meet · **To what, where:** talk, Reynaud

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This is a sentence of «Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France» by Alfred John Church, Of the Craft of Mawgis. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Roland), 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:pg75339:8:44
# text = Roland, liking this talk but little, rode forth to meet Reynaud.
1	Roland	Roland	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	9	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	1	punct	_	_
3	liking	like	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	1	acl	_	_
4	this	this	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	5	det	_	_
5	talk	talk	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obj	_	_
6	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	7	cc	_	_
7	little	little	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	1	punct	_	_
9	rode	ride	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
10	forth	forth	ADV	RB	_	9	advmod	_	_
11	to	to	PART	TO	_	12	mark	_	_
12	meet	meet	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	9	advcl	_	_
13	Reynaud	Reynaud	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	12	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	9	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
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| 1 | **like** | gerund | Roland *not said here* | this talk |  |  |  |  | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot talk=Theme |
| 2 | **ride** | past | Roland |  |  |  |  | forth *property* | vn nonvehicle-51.4.2 «NP.agent V»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **meet** | to-infinitive | Roland *not said here* | Reynaud |  |  |  |  | vn meet-36.3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent reynaud=Co-Agent |

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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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