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# Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France, How Oliver and His Comrades Fared, sentence 21

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After this Balan commanded that the prisoners should be brought before him, having been first bound with cords and blindfolded.

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**Who acts:** Balan · **What happens:** command, bring, bind, blindfold · **To what, where:** prisoners · **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 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 (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:pg75339:19:21
# text = After this Balan commanded that the prisoners should be brought before him, having been first bound with cords and blindfolded.
1	After	after	ADP	IN	_	2	case	_	_
2	this	this	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	3	det	_	_
3	Balan	Balan	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
4	commanded	command	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	10	mark	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	prisoners	prisoner	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	10	nsubj:pass	_	_
8	should	should	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	10	aux	_	_
9	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	10	aux:pass	_	_
10	brought	bring	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	4	ccomp	_	_
11	before	before	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
12	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	10	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	_
14	having	have	AUX	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	17	aux	_	_
15	been	be	AUX	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	17	aux:pass	_	_
16	first	first	ADV	RB	NumForm=Word|NumType=Ord	17	advmod	_	_
17	bound	bind	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	10	parataxis	_	_
18	with	with	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
19	cords	cord	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	17	obl	_	_
20	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	21	cc	_	_
21	blindfolded	blindfold	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	17	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **command** | past | this Balan |  |  |  |  |  | vn order-58.3-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 2 | **bring** | should · passive |  | the prisoners |  |  | before Balan |  | vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: subject=Theme before he=Destination |
| 3 | **bind** | gerund · perfect · passive |  |  |  |  |  | with cords; first *property* | vn shake-22.3-2-1 «NP V NP PP»: with cord=Co-Patient |
| 4 | **blindfold** | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn butter-9.9 «NP V NP.destination»: agent=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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