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title: Then Turpin the Archbishop struck spurs into his horse, and rode to… — Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of F… · tree and pragmatics
description: Then Turpin the Archbishop struck spurs into his horse, and rode to a hilltop. Who acts: Turpin. A sentence of «Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France» by Alfred John Church, How the Heathen and the French Prepared For Battle, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every claus
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# Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France, How the Heathen and the French Prepared For Battle, sentence 35

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Then Turpin the Archbishop struck spurs into his horse, and rode to a hilltop.

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**Who acts:** Turpin · **What happens:** strike, ride · **To what, where:** spurs, hilltop

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This is a sentence of «Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France» by Alfred John Church, How the Heathen and the French Prepared For Battle. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Turpin), 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:pg75339:30:35
# text = Then Turpin the Archbishop struck spurs into his horse, and rode to a hilltop.
1	Then	then	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	5	advmod	_	_
2	Turpin	Turpin	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	Archbishop	Archbishop	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	appos	_	_
5	struck	strike	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
6	spurs	spur	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	obj	_	_
7	into	into	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
8	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	9	nmod:poss	_	_
9	horse	horse	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
11	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	12	cc	_	_
12	rode	ride	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	conj	_	_
13	to	to	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
14	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
15	hilltop	hilltop	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **strike** | past | Turpin | spurs |  |  | then | into Turpin's horse *result* | vn hit-18.1-1 «NP V NP PP.result»: agent=Agent spur=Patient into horse=Result |
| 2 | **ride** | past | Turpin *not said here* |  |  | a hilltop |  |  | vn nonvehicle-51.4.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent to hilltop=Trajectory |

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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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