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title: A French knight, whom may Mahomet confound, overcame him. — Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of F… · tree and pragmatics
description: A French knight, whom may Mahomet confound, overcame him. Who acts: French knight. A sentence of «Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France» by Alfred John Church, Of the Doings of the French Knights, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France, Of the Doings of the French Knights, sentence 4

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A French knight, whom may Mahomet confound, overcame him.

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**Who acts:** French knight · **What happens:** confound, overcame · **To what, where:** knight

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This is a sentence of «Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France» by Alfred John Church, Of the Doings of the French Knights. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (French knight), 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:pg75339:22:4
# text = A French knight, whom may Mahomet confound, overcame him.
1	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	French	French	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	knight	knight	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	8	punct	_	_
5	whom	whom	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	8	obj	_	_
6	may	may	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	8	aux	_	_
7	Mahomet	Mahomet	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	8	nsubj	_	_
8	confound	confound	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
10	overcame	overcame	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	8	conj	_	_
11	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	10	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	8	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **confound** | may | a French knight |  |  |  |  | whom *obj*; Mahomet *nsubj* | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus whom=Experiencer |
| 2 | **overcame** | infinitive | a French knight *not said here* | knight |  |  |  |  | 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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