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# Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France, Of the End of Balan the Admiral, sentence 28

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When he saw this Balan swooned with rage, but, coming to himself, bade the Saracens assault the Tower yet again with all their might.

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**Who acts:** Balan, Saracens · **What happens:** see, swoon, come, assault · **To what, where:** Balan, bade · **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: who acts (Balan, Saracens), 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:pg75339:26:28
# text = When he saw this Balan swooned with rage, but, coming to himself, bade the Saracens assault the Tower yet again with all their might.
1	When	when	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	3	advmod	_	_
2	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
3	saw	see	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	this	this	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	5	det	_	_
5	Balan	Balan	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	6	nsubj	_	_
6	swooned	swoon	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	ccomp	_	_
7	with	with	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
8	rage	rage	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
10	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	12	cc	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
12	coming	come	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	3	conj	_	_
13	to	to	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
14	himself	himself	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs|Reflex=Yes	12	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
16	bade	bade	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	obl	_	_
17	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
18	Saracens	Saracen	PROPN	NNPS	Number=Plur	19	nsubj	_	_
19	assault	assault	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	3	parataxis	_	_
20	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	21	det	_	_
21	Tower	Tower	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	19	obj	_	_
22	yet	yet	ADV	RB	_	23	advmod	_	_
23	again	again	ADV	RB	_	19	advmod	_	_
24	with	with	SCONJ	IN	_	27	mark	_	_
25	all	all	DET	PDT	PronType=Tot	27	det:predet	_	_
26	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	27	nmod:poss	_	_
27	might	might	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	19	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **see** | past | Balan |  |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus |
| 2 | **swoon** | past | this Balan |  |  |  |  | with rage | vn change\_bodily\_state-40.8.4 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer |
| 3 | **come** | gerund | Balan *not said here* |  | Balan |  |  |  | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme to himself=Initial\_Location |
| 4 | **assault** | present | the Saracens | bade |  |  | again; yet | the Tower *obj* | vn attack-60.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent tower=Patient |

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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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