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description: And Ganelon, when the Saracen's eyes were upon him, felt his whole body tremble from head to foot. Who acts: eyes, Ganelon, Saracen. A sentence of «Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France» by Alfred John Church, The Treason of Ganelon, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of eve
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# Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France, The Treason of Ganelon, sentence 28

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And Ganelon, when the Saracen's eyes were upon him, felt his whole body tremble from head to foot.

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**Who acts:** eyes, Ganelon, Saracen · **What happens:** be, feel, tremble · **To what, where:** whole body tremble, head

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This is a sentence of «Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France» by Alfred John Church, The Treason of Ganelon. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (eyes, Ganelon, Saracen), 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:pg75339:28:28
# text = And Ganelon, when the Saracen's eyes were upon him, felt his whole body tremble from head to foot.
1	And	and	CCONJ	CC	_	13	cc	_	_
2	Ganelon	Ganelon	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	13	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
4	when	when	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	11	advmod	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	Saracen	Saracen	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	8	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	's	's	PART	POS	_	6	case	_	_
8	eyes	eye	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	11	nsubj	_	_
9	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	11	cop	_	_
10	upon	upon	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
11	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	flat	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	2	punct	_	_
13	felt	feel	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
14	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	17	nmod:poss	_	_
15	whole	whole	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	17	amod	_	_
16	body	body	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	compound	_	_
17	tremble	tremble	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	obj	_	_
18	from	from	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
19	head	head	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	obl	_	_
20	to	to	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
21	foot	foot	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	13	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | past | the Saracen's eyes |  |  |  |  | upon Saracen | tree rules |
| 2 | **feel** | past | Ganelon | Saracen's whole body tremble |  | head |  | to foot | vn hunt-35.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent tremble=Theme |
| 3 | **tremble** |  | Saracen |  |  |  |  |  | nom tremble «act intransitive»: poss=agent |

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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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