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title: First he humbled himself before his gods, and vowed that he would of… — Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of F… · tree and pragmatics
description: First he humbled himself before his gods, and vowed that he would offer to them a thousand pounds of fine gold. Who acts: Admiral. 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
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# Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France, Of the End of Balan the Admiral, sentence 8

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First he humbled himself before his gods, and vowed that he would offer to them a thousand pounds of fine gold.

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**Who acts:** Admiral · **What happens:** humble, vow, offer · **To what, where:** Admiral, thousand pounds, gods

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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 (Admiral), 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:pg75339:26:8
# text = First he humbled himself before his gods, and vowed that he would offer to them a thousand pounds of fine gold.
1	First	first	ADV	RB	NumForm=Word|NumType=Ord	3	advmod	_	_
2	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
3	humbled	humble	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	himself	himself	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs|Reflex=Yes	3	obj	_	_
5	before	before	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
6	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	7	nmod:poss	_	_
7	gods	god	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
9	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	10	cc	_	_
10	vowed	vow	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	_
11	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	14	mark	_	_
12	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	14	nsubj	_	_
13	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	14	aux	_	_
14	offer	offer	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	10	ccomp	_	_
15	to	to	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
16	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	14	obl	_	_
17	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
18	thousand	thousand	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	19	nummod	_	_
19	pounds	pound	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	14	obj	_	_
20	of	of	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
21	fine	fine	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	22	amod	_	_
22	gold	gold	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **humble** | past | Admiral | Admiral |  |  | before Admiral's gods | first *property* | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus himself=Experiencer |
| 2 | **vow** | past | Admiral *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **offer** | would | Admiral | thousand pounds of fine gold | gods *= god* |  |  |  | vn future\_having-13.3 «NP V NP PP.goal»: agent=Agent pound=Theme to they=Goal |

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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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