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title: I saw him at Rome when my father the Admiral took that city, and the… — Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of F… · tree and pragmatics
description: I saw him at Rome when my father the Admiral took that city, and then and there gave him my heart, when he had struck down to the earth a certain Lucifer that was chief of the pagan warriors. Who acts: I, father, man, that. A sentence of «Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France» by Alf
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# Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France, How Oliver and His Comrades Fared, sentence 97

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I saw him at Rome when my father the Admiral took that city, and then and there gave him my heart, when he had struck down to the earth a certain Lucifer that was chief of the pagan warriors.

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**Who acts:** I, father, man, that · **What happens:** see, take, give, strike down, be · **To what, where:** man, Rome, city, heart, certain Lucifer, chief

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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 (I, father, man, that), 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:pg75339:19:97
# text = I saw him at Rome when my father the Admiral took that city, and then and there gave him my heart, when he had struck down to the earth a certain Lucifer that was chief of the pagan warriors.
1	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	2	nsubj	_	_
2	saw	see	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	obj	_	_
4	at	at	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
5	Rome	Rome	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	obl	_	_
6	when	when	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	11	advmod	_	_
7	my	my	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	8	nmod:poss	_	_
8	father	father	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	nsubj	_	_
9	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
10	Admiral	Admiral	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	8	appos	_	_
11	took	take	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	2	advcl	_	_
12	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	13	mark	_	_
13	city	city	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	19	punct	_	_
15	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	19	cc	_	_
16	then	then	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	19	advmod	_	_
17	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	18	cc	_	_
18	there	there	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	16	conj	_	_
19	gave	give	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	2	parataxis	_	_
20	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	19	iobj	_	_
21	my	my	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	22	nmod:poss	_	_
22	heart	heart	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	27	punct	_	_
24	when	when	SCONJ	WRB	_	27	mark	_	_
25	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	27	nsubj	_	_
26	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	27	aux	_	_
27	struck	strike	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	19	conj	_	_
28	down	down	ADP	RP	_	27	compound:prt	_	_
29	to	to	ADP	IN	_	31	case	_	_
30	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	31	det	_	_
31	earth	earth	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	27	obl	_	_
32	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	34	det	_	_
33	certain	certain	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	34	amod	_	_
34	Lucifer	lucifer	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	27	obl:unmarked	_	_
35	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	37	nsubj	_	_
36	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	37	cop	_	_
37	chief	chief	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	34	conj	_	_
38	of	of	ADP	IN	_	41	case	_	_
39	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	41	det	_	_
40	pagan	pagan	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	41	amod	_	_
41	warriors	warrior	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	37	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
42	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **see** | past | I | man |  | Rome |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer he=Stimulus |
| 2 | **take** | past | my father | city |  |  |  |  | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent city=Theme |
| 3 | **give** | past |  | my heart | man | there | then |  | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent he=Recipient heart=Theme |
| 4 | **strike down** | past · perfect | man | a certain Lucifer and chief |  |  |  | to the earth *result* | vn hit-18.1-1 «NP V NP PP.result»: agent=Agent to earth=Result |
| 5 | **is a** | past | that | chief |  |  |  | of the pagan warriors | 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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