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title: And first Brullant rode forth and challenged the King to combat; nor… — Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of F… · tree and pragmatics
description: And first Brullant rode forth and challenged the King to combat; nor did he hold back. Who acts: Brullant. 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 57

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And first Brullant rode forth and challenged the King to combat; nor did he hold back.

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**Who acts:** Brullant · **What happens:** ride, challenge, combat, hold back · **To what, where:** King

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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 (Brullant), 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:pg75339:26:57
# text = And first Brullant rode forth and challenged the King to combat; nor did he hold back.
1	And	and	CCONJ	CC	_	4	cc	_	_
2	first	first	ADV	RB	NumForm=Word|NumType=Ord	4	advmod	_	_
3	Brullant	Brullant	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
4	rode	ride	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	forth	forth	ADV	RB	_	4	advmod	_	_
6	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	7	cc	_	_
7	challenged	challenge	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	conj	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
9	King	King	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	7	obj	_	_
10	to	to	PART	TO	_	11	mark	_	_
11	combat	combat	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	7	xcomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
13	nor	nor	CCONJ	CC	Polarity=Neg	16	cc	_	_
14	did	do	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	16	aux	_	_
15	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	16	nsubj	_	_
16	hold	hold	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	4	conj	_	_
17	back	back	ADV	RB	_	16	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **ride** | past | Brullant |  |  |  |  | first, forth *property* | vn nonvehicle-51.4.2 «NP.agent V»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **challenge** | past | Brullant *not said here* | the King |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **combat** | to-infinitive | Brullant *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn battle-36.4-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 4 | **hold back** | past · do-support | Brullant |  |  |  |  |  | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=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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