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description: He conquered the whole land from the sea to the mountains, saving Saragossa only, of which Marsilas, a heathen, was King. Who acts: Charles. A sentence of «Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France» by Alfred John Church, How Ganelon Went on an Errand to King Marsilas, with its dependenc
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# Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France, How Ganelon Went on an Errand to King Marsilas, sentence 2

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He conquered the whole land from the sea to the mountains, saving Saragossa only, of which Marsilas, a heathen, was King.

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**Who acts:** Charles · **What happens:** conquer, save, be · **To what, where:** whole land, sea, Saragossa, Marsilas King

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This is a sentence of «Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France» by Alfred John Church, How Ganelon Went on an Errand to King Marsilas. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Charles), 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:pg75339:27:2
# text = He conquered the whole land from the sea to the mountains, saving Saragossa only, of which Marsilas, a heathen, was King.
1	He	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	nsubj	_	_
2	conquered	conquer	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
4	whole	whole	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	amod	_	_
5	land	land	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obj	_	_
6	from	from	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	sea	sea	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obl	_	_
9	to	to	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
10	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
11	mountains	mountain	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
13	saving	save	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	2	advcl	_	_
14	Saragossa	Saragossa	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	13	obj	_	_
15	only	only	ADV	RB	_	13	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	25	punct	_	_
17	of	of	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
18	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	25	obl	_	_
19	Marsilas	Marsilas	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	25	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	22	punct	_	_
21	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	22	det	_	_
22	heathen	heathen	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	appos	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	19	punct	_	_
24	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	25	cop	_	_
25	King	King	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	13	vocative	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **conquer** | past | Charles | the whole land |  | the sea |  | to the mountains | vn subjugate-42.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent land=Patient |
| 2 | **save** | gerund | Charles *not said here* | Saragossa |  |  |  |  | vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent saragossa=Theme |
| 3 | **is a** | past |  | Marsilas King |  |  |  | which *obl* | tree rules |

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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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