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title: So Brullant showed to him Oliver, and Balan was fain to admire him,… — Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of F… · tree and pragmatics
description: So Brullant showed to him Oliver, and Balan was fain to admire him, so tall he was and strong and fair. Who acts: Brullant, Balan. A sentence of «Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France» by Alfred John Church, How Oliver and His Comrades Fared, with its dependency tree and the pragmati
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# Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France, How Oliver and His Comrades Fared, sentence 13

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So Brullant showed to him Oliver, and Balan was fain to admire him, so tall he was and strong and fair.

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**Who acts:** Brullant, Balan · **What happens:** show, be, admire · **To what, where:** Oliver, Admiral, Brullant

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This is a sentence of «Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France» by Alfred John Church, How Oliver and His Comrades Fared. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Brullant, Balan), 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:pg75339:19:13
# text = So Brullant showed to him Oliver, and Balan was fain to admire him, so tall he was and strong and fair.
1	So	so	ADV	RB	_	3	advmod	_	_
2	Brullant	Brullant	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
3	showed	show	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	to	to	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
5	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	obl	_	_
6	Oliver	Oliver	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
8	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	11	cc	_	_
9	Balan	Balan	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	11	nsubj	_	_
10	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	11	cop	_	_
11	fain	fain	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	conj	_	_
12	to	to	PART	TO	_	13	mark	_	_
13	admire	admire	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	11	csubj	_	_
14	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	13	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	_
16	so	so	ADV	RB	_	17	advmod	_	_
17	tall	tall	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	parataxis	_	_
18	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	21	nsubj	_	_
19	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	21	cop	_	_
20	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	21	cc	_	_
21	strong	strong	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	17	parataxis	_	_
22	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	23	cc	_	_
23	fair	fair	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	21	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **show** | past | Brullant | Oliver | Admiral |  |  |  | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent oliver=Topic to he=Recipient |
| 2 | **is** | past | Balan |  |  |  |  | fain *property* | tree rules |
| 3 | **admire** | to-infinitive |  | Brullant |  |  |  |  | vn admire-31.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer he=Stimulus |
| 4 | **is** | past | Balan |  |  |  |  | strong *property* | tree rules |
| 5 | **be** |  | Balan *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |

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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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