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title: So Oliver armed him; he helped him to don first a suit of leather of… — Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of F… · tree and pragmatics
description: So Oliver armed him; he helped him to don first a suit of leather of Arabia and after this a coat and habergeon of steel, and an helmet richly garnished with jewels for his head. Who acts: Oliver, Fierabras. A sentence of «Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France» by Alfred John Church,
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# Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France, How Oliver Fought With Fierabras, sentence 4

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So Oliver armed him; he helped him to don first a suit of leather of Arabia and after this a coat and habergeon of steel, and an helmet richly garnished with jewels for his head.

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**Who acts:** Oliver, Fierabras · **What happens:** arm, help, don, garnish · **To what, where:** Fierabras, Oliver, suit, helmet

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This is a sentence of «Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France» by Alfred John Church, How Oliver Fought With Fierabras. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Oliver, Fierabras), 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:pg75339:17:4
# text = So Oliver armed him; he helped him to don first a suit of leather of Arabia and after this a coat and habergeon of steel, and an helmet richly garnished with jewels for his head.
1	So	so	ADV	RB	_	3	advmod	_	_
2	Oliver	Oliver	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
3	armed	arm	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	7	punct	_	_
6	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	7	nsubj	_	_
7	helped	help	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	parataxis	_	_
8	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	7	obj	_	_
9	to	to	PART	TO	_	10	mark	_	_
10	don	don	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	7	xcomp	_	_
11	first	first	ADV	RB	NumForm=Word|NumType=Ord	10	advmod	_	_
12	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
13	suit	suit	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obj	_	_
14	of	of	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
15	leather	leather	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	nmod	_	_
16	of	of	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
17	Arabia	Arabia	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	15	nmod	_	_
18	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	22	cc	_	_
19	after	after	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
20	this	this	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	22	det	_	_
21	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	22	det	_	_
22	coat	coat	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	conj	_	_
23	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	24	cc	_	_
24	habergeon	habergeon	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	conj	_	_
25	of	of	ADP	IN	_	26	case	_	_
26	steel	steel	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	32	punct	_	_
28	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	32	cc	_	_
29	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	30	det	_	_
30	helmet	helmet	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	32	nsubj:pass	_	_
31	richly	richly	ADV	RB	_	32	advmod	_	_
32	garnished	garnish	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	3	conj	_	_
33	with	with	ADP	IN	_	34	case	_	_
34	jewels	jewel	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	32	obl	_	_
35	for	for	ADP	IN	_	37	case	_	_
36	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	37	nmod:poss	_	_
37	head	head	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	32	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
38	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **arm** | past | Oliver |  | Fierabras |  |  |  | vn equip-13.4.2-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent he=Recipient |
| 2 | **help** | past | Fierabras | Oliver |  |  |  | this coat and habergeon of steel *conj* | vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V NP S\_INF»: agent=Agent he=Beneficiary clause=Theme |
| 3 | **don** | to-infinitive | Oliver *not said here* | a suit of leather of Arabia |  |  |  | first *property* | vn simple\_dressing-41.3.1-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent suit=Theme |
| 4 | **garnish** | participle · passive |  | a helmet |  |  |  | with jewels; for Fierabras's head; richly *property* | vn fill-9.8 «NP V NP PP.theme»: subject=Destination with jewel=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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