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title: But when he had bound them again as best he could, he said to Garin… — Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of F… · tree and pragmatics
description: But when he had bound them again as best he could, he said to Garin his squire, "Come, bring me my arms, for I will go out and meet this pagan." Who acts: King, bound best. A sentence of «Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France» by Alfred John Church, How Fierabras Defied King Charles,
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# Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France, How Fierabras Defied King Charles, sentence 44

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But when he had bound them again as best he could, he said to Garin his squire, "Come, bring me my arms, for I will go out and meet this pagan."

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**Who acts:** King, bound best · **What happens:** bind, say, come, bring, go out, meet · **To what, where:** wounds, squire, Garin, arms, bound best, pagan · **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, 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 (King, bound best), 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:pg75339:16:44
# text = But when he had bound them again as best he could, he said to Garin his squire, "Come, bring me my arms, for I will go out and meet this pagan."
1	But	but	CCONJ	CC	_	9	cc	_	_
2	when	when	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	5	advmod	_	_
3	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	5	nsubj	_	_
4	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	aux	_	_
5	bound	bind	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	9	amod	_	_
6	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	5	obj	_	_
7	again	again	ADV	RB	_	5	advmod	_	_
8	as	as	ADV	RB	_	9	advmod	_	_
9	best	good	ADJ	JJS	Degree=Sup	14	nsubj	_	_
10	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	11	nsubj	_	_
11	could	could	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	9	parataxis	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	9	punct	_	_
13	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	14	nsubj	_	_
14	said	say	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
15	to	to	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
16	Garin	Garin	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	14	obl	_	_
17	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	18	nmod:poss	_	_
18	squire	squire	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	21	punct	_	_
20	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	21	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	Come	come	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	14	parataxis	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	23	punct	_	_
23	bring	bring	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	21	conj	_	_
24	me	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	23	obj	_	_
25	my	my	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	26	nmod:poss	_	_
26	arms	arm	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	23	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	31	punct	_	_
28	for	for	SCONJ	IN	_	31	mark	_	_
29	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	31	nsubj	_	_
30	will	will	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	31	aux	_	_
31	go	go	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	23	conj	_	_
32	out	out	ADV	RB	_	31	advmod	_	_
33	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	34	cc	_	_
34	meet	meet	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	31	conj	_	_
35	this	this	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	36	det	_	_
36	pagan	pagan	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	34	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
37	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	21	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
38	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	21	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **bind** | past · perfect | King | wounds *= wound* |  |  | again |  | vn shake-22.3-2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Patient |
| 2 | **say** *speech: assert* | past | bound best | King's squire | Garin |  |  | King *nsubj* | tree rules |
| 3 | **come** *in a quote* | infinitive |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 4 | **bring** *in a quote* | infinitive |  | my arms | bound best *= good* |  |  |  | vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP NP»: agent=Agent i=Destination arm=Theme |
| 5 | **go out** *in a quote* | future | bound best *= good* |  |  |  |  | out *property* | vn interact-36.6 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 6 | **meet** *in a quote* | infinitive | bound best *= good* *not said here* | this pagan |  |  |  |  | vn meet-36.3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent pagan=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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