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title: And now the knights that were in the Tower, seeing the army of their… — Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of F… · tree and pragmatics
description: And now the knights that were in the Tower, seeing the army of their countrymen, came forth, and taking each man a horse, whose rider had been slain, charged the Saracens. Who acts: Tower, rider, knights. A sentence of «Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France» by Alfred John Church, Of
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# Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France, Of the End of Balan the Admiral, sentence 62

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And now the knights that were in the Tower, seeing the army of their countrymen, came forth, and taking each man a horse, whose rider had been slain, charged the Saracens.

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**Who acts:** Tower, rider, knights · **What happens:** be, see, come, take, charge · **To what, where:** Tower, army, knights, man, slain, Saracens

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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 (Tower, rider, knights), 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:pg75339:26:62
# text = And now the knights that were in the Tower, seeing the army of their countrymen, came forth, and taking each man a horse, whose rider had been slain, charged the Saracens.
1	And	and	CCONJ	CC	_	34	cc	_	_
2	now	now	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	34	advmod	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	knights	knight	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	34	nsubj	_	_
5	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	18	obl	_	_
6	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	9	cop	_	_
7	in	in	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
9	Tower	Tower	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	18	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
11	seeing	see	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	9	acl	_	_
12	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
13	army	army	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	obj	_	_
14	of	of	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
15	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	16	nmod:poss	_	_
16	countrymen	countryman	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	13	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	9	punct	_	_
18	came	come	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	acl:relcl	_	_
19	forth	forth	ADV	RB	_	18	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	22	punct	_	_
21	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	22	cc	_	_
22	taking	take	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	18	advcl	_	_
23	each	each	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	24	det	_	_
24	man	man	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	obj	_	_
25	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	26	det	_	_
26	horse	horse	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	32	punct	_	_
28	whose	whose	PRON	WP$	Poss=Yes|PronType=Rel	29	nmod:poss	_	_
29	rider	rider	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	32	nsubj	_	_
30	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	32	aux	_	_
31	been	be	AUX	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	32	cop	_	_
32	slain	slain	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	26	appos	_	SpaceAfter=No
33	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	_
34	charged	charge	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
35	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	36	det	_	_
36	Saracens	saracen	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	34	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
37	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	34	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | past |  |  |  | the Tower |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **see** | gerund | the Tower *not said here* | the army of knights's countrymen |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer army=Stimulus |
| 3 | **come** | past | the Tower | the knights |  |  |  | forth *property* | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 4 | **take** | gerund | the Tower *not said here* | each man |  |  |  | a horse *obj* | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP ADVP»: agent=Instrument man=Theme horse=Destination |
| 5 | **is a** | past · perfect | slain's rider | slain |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 6 | **charge** | past | the knights | the Saracens |  |  | now |  | vn run-51.3.2 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Initial\_Location saracen=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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