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title: But when the Saracens came near to the army of the King they left ch… — Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of F… · tree and pragmatics
description: But when the Saracens came near to the army of the King they left chasing Ganelon. Who acts: Saracens. 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 53

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But when the Saracens came near to the army of the King they left chasing Ganelon.

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**Who acts:** Saracens · **What happens:** come, leave, chase · **To what, where:** army, Ganelon

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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 (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:pg75339:26:53
# text = But when the Saracens came near to the army of the King they left chasing Ganelon.
1	But	but	CCONJ	CC	_	14	cc	_	_
2	when	when	SCONJ	WRB	_	5	mark	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	Saracens	Saracen	PROPN	NNPS	Number=Plur	5	nsubj	_	_
5	came	come	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	14	advcl	_	_
6	near	near	ADV	RB	_	5	advmod	_	_
7	to	to	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
9	army	army	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obl	_	_
10	of	of	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
11	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
12	King	King	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	9	nmod	_	_
13	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	14	nsubj	_	_
14	left	leave	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
15	chasing	chase	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	14	xcomp	_	_
16	Ganelon	Ganelon	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	15	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	14	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **come** | past | the Saracens |  |  | the army of the King |  | near *property* | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme to army=Initial\_Location |
| 2 | **leave** | past | Saracens *= saracen* |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **chase** | gerund | Saracens *= saracen* *not said here* | Ganelon |  |  |  |  | vn chase-51.6 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent ganelon=Theme |

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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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