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title: HOW GANELON WENT ON AN ERRAND TO KING MARSILAS XXVI. — Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of F… · tree and pragmatics
description: HOW GANELON WENT ON AN ERRAND TO KING MARSILAS XXVI. Who acts: GANELON. A sentence of «Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France» by Alfred John Church, Alfred J. Church., with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France, Alfred J. Church., sentence 27

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HOW GANELON WENT ON AN ERRAND TO KING MARSILAS XXVI.

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**Who acts:** GANELON · **What happens:** go · **To what, where:** ERRAND

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This is a sentence of «Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France» by Alfred John Church, Alfred J. Church.. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (GANELON), 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:pg75339:2:27
# text = HOW GANELON WENT ON AN ERRAND TO KING MARSILAS XXVI.
1	HOW	how	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	3	advmod	_	_
2	GANELON	GANELON	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
3	WENT	go	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	ON	on	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
5	AN	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	ERRAND	errand	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	_
7	TO	to	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
8	KING	KING	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	9	compound	_	_
9	MARSILAS	MARSILAS	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	6	nmod	_	_
10	XXVI	XXVI	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	9	flat	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **go** | past | GANELON |  |  | a ERRAND to KING MARSILAS |  |  | vn occur-48.3-2 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme on errand=Location |

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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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