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title: The first that rode forth from the array of the heathen was Ælroth,… — Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of F… · tree and pragmatics
description: The first that rode forth from the array of the heathen was Ælroth, nephew to King Marsilas. Who acts: first. A sentence of «Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France» by Alfred John Church, The Battle, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France, The Battle, sentence 1

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The first that rode forth from the array of the heathen was Ælroth, nephew to King Marsilas.

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**Who acts:** first · **What happens:** ride, be · **To what, where:** Ælroth, array

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This is a sentence of «Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France» by Alfred John Church, The Battle. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (first), 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:pg75339:31:1
# text = The first that rode forth from the array of the heathen was Ælroth, nephew to King Marsilas.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	first	first	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos|NumForm=Word|NumType=Ord	4	nsubj	_	_
3	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	4	nsubj	_	_
4	rode	ride	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	forth	forth	ADV	RB	_	4	advmod	_	_
6	from	from	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	array	array	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	obl	_	_
9	of	of	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
10	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
11	heathen	heathen	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	nmod	_	_
12	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	13	cop	_	_
13	Ælroth	Ælroth	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
15	nephew	nephew	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	appos	_	_
16	to	to	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
17	King	King	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	18	compound	_	_
18	Marsilas	Marsilas	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	15	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **ride** | past | the first |  |  |  |  | that *nsubj*; forth *property* | vn nonvehicle-51.4.2 «NP.agent V»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **is a** | past |  | Ælroth |  | the array of the heathen |  | nephew to King Marsilas *appos* | tree rules |

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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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