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title: HOW THE HEATHEN AND THE FRENCH PREPARED FOR BATTLE XXIX. — Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of F… · tree and pragmatics
description: HOW THE HEATHEN AND THE FRENCH PREPARED FOR BATTLE XXIX. 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 30

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HOW THE HEATHEN AND THE FRENCH PREPARED FOR BATTLE XXIX.

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**What happens:** prepare · **To what, where:** FRENCH

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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: 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:pg75339:2:30
# text = HOW THE HEATHEN AND THE FRENCH PREPARED FOR BATTLE XXIX.
1	HOW	how	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	0	root	_	_
2	THE	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	HEATHEN	heathen	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	nsubj	_	_
4	AND	and	CCONJ	CC	_	7	cc	_	_
5	THE	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	FRENCH	French	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	obl:unmarked	_	_
7	PREPARED	prepare	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	3	conj	_	_
8	FOR	for	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
9	BATTLE	battle	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obl	_	_
10	XXIX	XXIX	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	9	appos	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	1	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **prepare** | participle |  | the FRENCH |  |  |  | for BATTLE | vn preparing-26.3-1 «NP V NP PP.beneficiary»: agent=Agent for battle=Beneficiary |

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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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