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title: Now the wisest of the heathens was a certain Blancandrin, a man vali… — Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of F… · tree and pragmatics
description: Now the wisest of the heathens was a certain Blancandrin, a man valiant in war and good at counsel. " Who acts: wisest. 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 dependency tree and the pragma
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# Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France, How Ganelon Went on an Errand to King Marsilas, sentence 5

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Now the wisest of the heathens was a certain Blancandrin, a man valiant in war and good at counsel. "

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**Who acts:** wisest · **What happens:** be · **To what, where:** certain Blancandrin

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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 (wisest), 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:pg75339:27:5
# text = Now the wisest of the heathens was a certain Blancandrin, a man valiant in war and good at counsel. "
1	Now	now	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	3	advmod	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	wisest	wise	ADJ	JJS	Degree=Sup	10	nsubj	_	_
4	of	of	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	heathens	heathen	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	obl	_	_
7	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	10	cop	_	_
8	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
9	certain	certain	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	10	amod	_	_
10	Blancandrin	Blancandrin	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
12	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
13	man	man	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	compound	_	_
14	valiant	valiant	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	appos	_	_
15	in	in	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
16	war	war	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	nmod	_	_
17	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	18	cc	_	_
18	good	good	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	16	conj	_	_
19	at	at	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
20	counsel	counsel	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	16	punct	_	_
22	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	14	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** | past | the wisest of the heathens | a certain Blancandrin |  |  |  | a man valiant in war *appos* | 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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