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title: Nor did Ganelon hold back, though there were some that gave him evil… — Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of F… · tree and pragmatics
description: Nor did Ganelon hold back, though there were some that gave him evil counsel, as Aloys, who said to him, "See, now, how the King is beset. Who acts: Nor, some, Aloys, King. A sentence of «Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France» by Alfred John Church, How the Bridge Mantryble Was Won, 
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# Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France, How the Bridge Mantryble Was Won, sentence 53

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Nor did Ganelon hold back, though there were some that gave him evil counsel, as Aloys, who said to him, "See, now, how the King is beset.

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**Who acts:** Nor, some, Aloys, King · **What happens:** hold back, be, give, say, see · **To what, where:** Aloys, evil counsel, Ganelon, King, beset · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of «Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France» by Alfred John Church, How the Bridge Mantryble Was Won. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Nor, some, Aloys, King), 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:pg75339:25:53
# text = Nor did Ganelon hold back, though there were some that gave him evil counsel, as Aloys, who said to him, "See, now, how the King is beset.
1	Nor	Nor	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
2	did	do	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	aux	_	_
3	Ganelon	Ganelon	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
4	hold	hold	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
5	back	back	ADV	RB	_	4	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	9	punct	_	_
7	though	though	SCONJ	IN	_	9	mark	_	_
8	there	there	PRON	EX	PronType=Dem	9	expl	_	_
9	were	be	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	12	advcl	_	_
10	some	some	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	12	nsubj	_	_
11	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	12	nsubj	_	_
12	gave	give	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	conj	_	_
13	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	12	iobj	_	_
14	evil	evil	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	15	amod	_	_
15	counsel	counsel	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	_
17	as	as	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
18	Aloys	Aloys	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	21	punct	_	_
20	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	21	nsubj	_	_
21	said	say	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	18	parataxis	_	_
22	to	to	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
23	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	21	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	26	punct	_	_
25	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	26	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	See	see	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	21	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	28	punct	_	_
28	now	now	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	26	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
29	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	34	punct	_	_
30	how	how	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	34	advmod	_	_
31	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	32	det	_	_
32	King	King	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	34	nsubj	_	_
33	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	34	cop	_	_
34	beset	beset	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	26	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
35	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **hold back** | past · do-support | Nor | Aloys |  |  |  | Ganelon *nsubj* | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent aloys=Theme |
| 2 | **be** | past | some *not said here* |  |  | there |  |  | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 3 | **give** | past | some | evil counsel | Ganelon |  |  | that *nsubj* | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent he=Recipient counsel=Theme |
| 4 | **say** *speech: assert* | past | Aloys |  | King |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V PP.recipient S-Quote»: agent=Agent to he=Recipient |
| 5 | **see** *in a quote* | infinitive | Aloys *not said here* |  |  |  | now |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer |
| 6 | **is a** *in a quote* | present | the King | beset |  |  |  |  | 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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