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title: And he threw to the ground his mantle of sable, covered with silk of… — Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of F… · tree and pragmatics
description: And he threw to the ground his mantle of sable, covered with silk of Alexandria; but his sword he kept, holding its hilt in his right hand. " Who acts: Charles, sword. A sentence of «Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France» by Alfred John Church, The Treason of Ganelon, with its depend
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# Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France, The Treason of Ganelon, sentence 59

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And he threw to the ground his mantle of sable, covered with silk of Alexandria; but his sword he kept, holding its hilt in his right hand. "

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**Who acts:** Charles, sword · **What happens:** throw, cover, keep, hold · **To what, where:** mantle, ground, hilt, right hand

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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 (Charles, sword), 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:pg75339:28:59
# text = And he threw to the ground his mantle of sable, covered with silk of Alexandria; but his sword he kept, holding its hilt in his right hand. "
1	And	and	CCONJ	CC	_	3	cc	_	_
2	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
3	threw	throw	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	to	to	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	ground	ground	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	_
7	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	8	nmod:poss	_	_
8	mantle	mantle	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obj	_	_
9	of	of	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
10	sable	sable	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
12	covered	cover	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	10	conj	_	_
13	with	with	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
14	silk	silk	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	obl	_	_
15	of	of	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
16	Alexandria	Alexandria	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	14	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	22	punct	_	_
18	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	22	cc	_	_
19	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	20	nmod:poss	_	_
20	sword	sword	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	nsubj	_	_
21	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	22	nsubj	_	_
22	kept	keep	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	24	punct	_	_
24	holding	hold	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	22	advcl	_	_
25	its	its	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	26	nmod:poss	_	_
26	hilt	hilt	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	obj	_	_
27	in	in	ADP	IN	_	30	case	_	_
28	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	30	nmod:poss	_	_
29	right	right	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	30	amod	_	_
30	hand	hand	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
31	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
32	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	3	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **throw** | past | Charles | Charles's mantle of sable |  | the ground |  |  | vn throw-17.1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.destinations»: agent=Agent mantle=Theme to ground=Destination |
| 2 | **cover** | participle | Charles *not said here* |  |  |  |  | with silk of Alexandria | vn fill-9.8-1 «NP V NP PP.theme»: agent=Agent with silk=Theme |
| 3 | **keep** | past | Charles's sword |  |  |  |  | Charles *nsubj* | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
| 4 | **hold** | gerund | Charles's sword *not said here* | sword's hilt |  | Charles's right hand |  |  | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent hilt=Theme in hand=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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