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title: He had a gilded staff in his hand, and would have struck Ganelon the… — Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of F… · tree and pragmatics
description: He had a gilded staff in his hand, and would have struck Ganelon therewith, but that by good fortune his people held him back. Who acts: face, that. 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 p
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# Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France, The Treason of Ganelon, sentence 51

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He had a gilded staff in his hand, and would have struck Ganelon therewith, but that by good fortune his people held him back.

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**Who acts:** face, that · **What happens:** have, gild, strike, hold back · **To what, where:** gilded staff, hand, Ganelon, face

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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 (face, that), 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:pg75339:28:51
# text = He had a gilded staff in his hand, and would have struck Ganelon therewith, but that by good fortune his people held him back.
1	He	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	nsubj	_	_
2	had	have	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
4	gilded	gild	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	5	amod	_	_
5	staff	staff	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obj	_	_
6	in	in	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
7	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	8	nmod:poss	_	_
8	hand	hand	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
10	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	13	cc	_	_
11	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	13	aux	_	_
12	have	have	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	13	aux	_	_
13	struck	strike	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	2	conj	_	_
14	Ganelon	Ganelon	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	13	obj	_	_
15	therewith	therewith	ADV	RB	_	13	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	24	punct	_	_
17	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	24	cc	_	_
18	that	that	PRON	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	24	nsubj	_	_
19	by	by	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
20	good	good	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	21	amod	_	_
21	fortune	fortune	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	obl	_	_
22	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	23	nmod:poss	_	_
23	people	people	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	24	nsubj	_	_
24	held	hold	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	13	parataxis	_	_
25	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	24	obj	_	_
26	back	back	ADV	RB	_	24	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **have** | past | face | a gilded staff |  | face's hand |  |  | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent staff=Patient |
| 2 | **gild** | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn butter-9.9 «NP V NP.destination»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **strike** | would · perfect | face *not said here* | Ganelon |  |  |  | therewith *property* | vn hit-18.1-1 «NP V NP PP»: agent=Agent ganelon=Instrument |
| 4 | **hold back** | past | that | face |  |  |  | by good fortune; face's people *nsubj* | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent he=Theme by fortune=Location |

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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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