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title: Meanwhile it was told Balan that Gallafer had been slain and the Bri… — Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of F… · tree and pragmatics
description: Meanwhile it was told Balan that Gallafer had been slain and the Bridge Mantryble taken. A sentence of «Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France» by Alfred John Church, Of the End of Balan the Admiral, 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 End of Balan the Admiral, sentence 1

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Meanwhile it was told Balan that Gallafer had been slain and the Bridge Mantryble taken.

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**What happens:** tell, be, take · **To what, where:** it, Balan, slain, Gallafer · **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, Of the End of Balan the Admiral. 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:pg75339:26:1
# text = Meanwhile it was told Balan that Gallafer had been slain and the Bridge Mantryble taken.
1	Meanwhile	meanwhile	ADV	RB	_	4	advmod	_	_
2	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	4	nsubj:pass	_	_
3	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	aux:pass	_	_
4	told	tell	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
5	Balan	Balan	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	iobj	_	_
6	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	15	mark	_	_
7	Gallafer	Gallafer	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	15	nsubj:pass	_	_
8	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	10	aux	_	_
9	been	be	AUX	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	10	cop	_	_
10	slain	slain	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	appos	_	_
11	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	14	cc	_	_
12	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
13	Bridge	Bridge	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	14	compound	_	_
14	Mantryble	Mantryble	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	7	conj	_	_
15	taken	take	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	4	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **tell** *speech: assert* | past · passive |  | it | Balan |  |  | meanwhile *property* | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: subject=Recipient balan=Topic |
| 2 | **is a** | past · perfect |  | slain |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **take** | participle · passive |  | Gallafer and the Bridge Mantryble |  |  |  |  | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP ADVP»: subject=Destination |

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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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