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title: The next day the Admiral having assembled a great host, began to ass… — Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of F… · tree and pragmatics
description: The next day the Admiral having assembled a great host, began to assail the castle with stones from slings and poisoned darts. Who acts: great host. 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 t
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# Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France, Of the Doings of the French Knights, sentence 67

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The next day the Admiral having assembled a great host, began to assail the castle with stones from slings and poisoned darts.

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**Who acts:** great host · **What happens:** assemble, begin, assail, poison · **To what, where:** Admiral, castle, slings

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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 (great host), 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:pg75339:22:67
# text = The next day the Admiral having assembled a great host, began to assail the castle with stones from slings and poisoned darts.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	next	next	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	day	day	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obl:unmarked	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	Admiral	admiral	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	nsubj:pass	_	_
6	having	have	AUX	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	7	aux	_	_
7	assembled	assemble	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
8	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
9	great	great	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	10	amod	_	_
10	host	host	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
12	began	begin	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	10	acl:relcl	_	_
13	to	to	PART	TO	_	14	mark	_	_
14	assail	assail	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	12	xcomp	_	_
15	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
16	castle	castle	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	obj	_	_
17	with	with	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
18	stones	stone	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	14	obl	_	_
19	from	from	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
20	slings	sling	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	14	obl	_	_
21	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	23	cc	_	_
22	poisoned	poison	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	23	amod	_	_
23	darts	dart	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	20	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	7	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **assemble** | gerund · perfect · passive |  | the Admiral |  |  | day | a great host *obj* | vn build-26.1 «NP V NP.beneficiary NP PP»: subject=Beneficiary host=Product |
| 2 | **begin** | past | a great host *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S\_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality |
| 3 | **assail** | to-infinitive | a great host *not said here* | the castle |  | slings and poisoned darts |  | with stones | vn attack-60.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent castle=Patient |
| 4 | **poison** | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn poison-42.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |

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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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