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title: HOW HUON, HAVING SLAIN A GIANT, CAME TO BABYLON XL. — Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of F… · tree and pragmatics
description: HOW HUON, HAVING SLAIN A GIANT, CAME TO BABYLON XL. Who acts: HUON. 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 41

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HOW HUON, HAVING SLAIN A GIANT, CAME TO BABYLON XL.

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**Who acts:** HUON · **What happens:** have · **To what, where:** SLAIN

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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 (HUON), 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:pg75339:2:41
# text = HOW HUON, HAVING SLAIN A GIANT, CAME TO BABYLON XL.
1	HOW	how	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	4	advmod	_	_
2	HUON	HUON	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	4	punct	_	_
4	HAVING	have	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	0	root	_	_
5	SLAIN	SLAIN	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	obj	_	_
6	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	GIANT	giant	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	9	punct	_	_
9	CAME	came	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	conj	_	_
10	TO	to	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
11	BABYLON	BABYLON	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	9	nmod	_	_
12	XL	XL	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	11	flat	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **have** | gerund | HUON | SLAIN |  |  |  | a GIANT and CAME to BABYLON *obj* | 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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