--- title: Then Ganelon drew his sword and smote Brullant where he stood by the… — Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of F… · tree and pragmatics description: Then Ganelon drew his sword and smote Brullant where he stood by the Admiral's side, and, leaping on his horse, rode away. Who acts: Ganelon. 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 --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg75339/26/45/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [tales](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/) / [Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve…](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg75339/) / [Of the End of Balan the Admiral](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg75339/26/) / 45 # Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France, Of the End of Balan the Admiral, sentence 45 Then Ganelon drew his sword and smote Brullant where he stood by the Admiral's side, and, leaping on his horse, rode away. **Who acts:** Ganelon · **What happens:** draw, smite, stand, leap, ride away · **To what, where:** sword, Brullant 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 (Ganelon), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. **Mova's own parse.** This tree may be wrong. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = book:pg75339:26:45 # text = Then Ganelon drew his sword and smote Brullant where he stood by the Admiral's side, and, leaping on his horse, rode away. 1 Then then ADV RB PronType=Dem 3 advmod _ _ 2 Ganelon Ganelon PROPN NNP Number=Sing 3 nsubj _ _ 3 drew draw VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 4 his his PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 5 nmod:poss _ _ 5 sword sword NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 obj _ _ 6 and and CCONJ CC _ 7 cc _ _ 7 smote smite VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 3 conj _ _ 8 Brullant Brullant PROPN NNP Number=Sing 7 obj _ _ 9 where where ADV WRB PronType=Rel 11 advmod _ _ 10 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 11 nsubj _ _ 11 stood stand VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 7 advcl _ _ 12 by by ADP IN _ 16 case _ _ 13 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 14 det _ _ 14 Admiral Admiral PROPN NNP Number=Sing 16 nmod:poss _ SpaceAfter=No 15 's 's PART POS _ 14 case _ _ 16 side side NOUN NN Number=Sing 11 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 17 , , PUNCT , _ 20 punct _ _ 18 and and CCONJ CC _ 20 cc _ SpaceAfter=No 19 , , PUNCT , _ 20 punct _ _ 20 leaping leap VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 3 advcl _ _ 21 on on ADP IN _ 23 case _ _ 22 his his PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 23 nmod:poss _ _ 23 horse horse NOUN NN Number=Sing 20 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 24 , , PUNCT , _ 25 punct _ _ 25 rode ride VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 3 conj _ _ 26 away away ADV RB _ 25 advmod _ SpaceAfter=No 27 . . PUNCT . _ 3 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **draw** | past | Ganelon | Ganelon's sword | | | then | | vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent sword=Theme | | 2 | **smite** | past | Ganelon *not said here* | Brullant | | | | | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus brullant=Experiencer | | 3 | **stand** | past | Ganelon | | | | | by the Admiral's side | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent by side=Location | | 4 | **leap** | gerund | Ganelon *not said here* | | | | | on Ganelon's horse | vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme on horse=Trajectory | | 5 | **ride away** | past | Ganelon *not said here* | | | | | away *property* | vn nonvehicle-51.4.2 «NP.agent V»: agent=Agent | 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. **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. - ← previous: [sentence 44](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg75339/26/44/) - next →: [sentence 46](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg75339/26/46/) - ↑ back to [Of the End of Balan the Admiral](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg75339/26/)