---
title: Then there charged from the wood a great host of pagans, among whom… — Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of F… · tree and pragmatics
description: Then there charged from the wood a great host of pagans, among whom was a certain Brullant, and another, Sortybrant by name. A sentence of «Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France» by Alfred John Church, How Oliver and Others Were Taken Prisoners, with its dependency tree and the pragm
---

<!-- md -->
[Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg75339/18/11/)

<!-- crumbs -->
[home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [tales](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/) / [Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve…](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg75339/) / [How Oliver and Others Were Taken Priso…](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg75339/18/) / 11

# Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France, How Oliver and Others Were Taken Prisoners, sentence 11

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
Then there charged from the wood a great host of pagans, among whom was a certain Brullant, and another, Sortybrant by name.

<!-- .vintro -->
**What happens:** charge, be · **To what, where:** Sortybrant, wood, certain Brullant

<!-- .vabout -->
This is a sentence of «Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France» by Alfred John Church, How Oliver and Others Were Taken Prisoners. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

<!-- .note-en -->
**Mova's own parse.** This tree may be wrong.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = book:pg75339:18:11
# text = Then there charged from the wood a great host of pagans, among whom was a certain Brullant, and another, Sortybrant by name.
1	Then	then	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	3	advmod	_	_
2	there	there	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	3	advmod	_	_
3	charged	charge	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
4	from	from	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	wood	wood	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	_
7	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
8	great	great	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	9	amod	_	_
9	host	host	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl:agent	_	_
10	of	of	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
11	pagans	pagan	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	9	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	_
13	among	among	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
14	whom	whom	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	18	obl	_	_
15	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	18	cop	_	_
16	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
17	certain	certain	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	18	amod	_	_
18	Brullant	Brullant	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	9	appos	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	21	punct	_	_
20	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	21	cc	_	_
21	another	another	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	3	parataxis	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	23	punct	_	_
23	Sortybrant	Sortybrant	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	_
24	by	by	ADP	IN	_	25	case	_	_
25	name	name	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

<!-- .fr -->
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **charge** | participle |  | Sortybrant |  | the wood; there | then | by name; a great host of pagans *obl:agent* | vn run-51.3.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme from wood=Trajectory |
| 2 | **is a** | past |  | a certain Brullant |  |  |  | among a great host of pagans | tree rules |

<!-- .note -->
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.

<!-- div src -->

**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.

<!-- /div -->

<!-- pn -->
- ← previous: [sentence 10](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg75339/18/10/)
- next →: [sentence 12](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg75339/18/12/)
- ↑ back to [How Oliver and Others Were Taken Prisoners](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg75339/18/)