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title: Blancandrin came forward and stood before King Marsilas holding Gane… — Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of F… · tree and pragmatics
description: Blancandrin came forward and stood before King Marsilas holding Ganelon by the right hand, and said, "In the name of the Prophet, health, O King. Who acts: Blancandrin, King. A sentence of «Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France» by Alfred John Church, The Treason of Ganelon, with its
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# Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France, The Treason of Ganelon, sentence 35

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Blancandrin came forward and stood before King Marsilas holding Ganelon by the right hand, and said, "In the name of the Prophet, health, O King.

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**Who acts:** Blancandrin, King · **What happens:** come forward, stand, hold, say, name · **To what, where:** Ganelon, name, Prophet · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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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 (Blancandrin, King), 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:pg75339:28:35
# text = Blancandrin came forward and stood before King Marsilas holding Ganelon by the right hand, and said, "In the name of the Prophet, health, O King.
1	Blancandrin	Blancandrin	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	nsubj	_	_
2	came	come	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	forward	forward	ADV	RB	_	2	advmod	_	_
4	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	5	cc	_	_
5	stood	stand	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	2	conj	_	_
6	before	before	SCONJ	IN	_	9	mark	_	_
7	King	King	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	9	nsubj	_	_
8	Marsilas	Marsilas	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	7	flat	_	_
9	holding	hold	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	5	advcl	_	_
10	Ganelon	Ganelon	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	9	obj	_	_
11	by	by	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
12	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
13	right	right	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	14	amod	_	_
14	hand	hand	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	_
16	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	17	cc	_	_
17	said	say	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	2	parataxis	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	22	punct	_	_
19	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	22	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	In	in	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
21	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	22	det	_	_
22	name	name	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	obl	_	_
23	of	of	ADP	IN	_	25	case	_	_
24	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	25	det	_	_
25	Prophet	Prophet	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	22	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	27	punct	_	_
27	health	health	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	30	punct	_	_
29	O	O	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	30	compound	_	_
30	King	King	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	27	appos	_	SpaceAfter=No
31	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **come forward** | past | Blancandrin |  |  |  |  | forward *property* | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **stand** | past | Blancandrin *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **hold** | gerund | King | Ganelon |  |  |  | by the right hand | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent ganelon=Theme by hand=Location |
| 4 | **say** *speech: assert* | past |  |  |  | the name of the Prophet and health |  |  | vn pronounce-29.3.1 «NP V NP PP.manner»: agent=Agent in name=Manner |
| 5 | **name** *in a quote* |  |  | the Prophet |  |  |  |  | nom name «communication transitive»: of=patient |

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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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