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title: This Fierabras was King of Alexandria, and ruled the whole land of B… — Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of F… · tree and pragmatics
description: This Fierabras was King of Alexandria, and ruled the whole land of Babylon from the Red Sea eastwards. Who acts: Fierabras King. A sentence of «Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France» by Alfred John Church, How Fierabras Defied King Charles, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics
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# Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France, How Fierabras Defied King Charles, sentence 3

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This Fierabras was King of Alexandria, and ruled the whole land of Babylon from the Red Sea eastwards.

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**Who acts:** Fierabras King · **What happens:** be, rule · **To what, where:** Fierabras King, whole land, Sea eastwards

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This is a sentence of «Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France» by Alfred John Church, How Fierabras Defied King Charles. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Fierabras King), 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:pg75339:16:3
# text = This Fierabras was King of Alexandria, and ruled the whole land of Babylon from the Red Sea eastwards.
1	This	this	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	2	det	_	_
2	Fierabras	Fierabras	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	compound	_	_
3	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	cop	_	_
4	King	King	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	9	nsubj	_	_
5	of	of	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
6	Alexandria	Alexandria	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	9	punct	_	_
8	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	9	cc	_	_
9	ruled	rule	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
10	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
11	whole	whole	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	12	amod	_	_
12	land	land	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obj	_	_
13	of	of	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
14	Babylon	Babylon	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	12	nmod	_	_
15	from	from	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
16	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	19	det	_	_
17	Red	Red	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	18	compound	_	_
18	Sea	Sea	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	19	compound	_	_
19	eastwards	eastward	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	9	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	9	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** | past |  | Fierabras King |  |  |  | of Alexandria | tree rules |
| 2 | **rule** | past | Fierabras King | the whole land of Babylon |  | the Sea eastwards |  |  | vn dub-29.3.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent land=Theme |

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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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