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title: The first to charge from out of the ranks of the heathen was Chimbor… — Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of F… · tree and pragmatics
description: The first to charge from out of the ranks of the heathen was Chimborin, the same that had given to Ganelon the helmet with the great carbuncle on the vizor. A sentence of «Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France» by Alfred John Church, The Battle, with its dependency tree and the pragm
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# Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France, The Battle, sentence 104

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The first to charge from out of the ranks of the heathen was Chimborin, the same that had given to Ganelon the helmet with the great carbuncle on the vizor.

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**What happens:** charge, be, give · **To what, where:** ranks, Chimborin, that, Ganelon

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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: 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:pg75339:31:104
# text = The first to charge from out of the ranks of the heathen was Chimborin, the same that had given to Ganelon the helmet with the great carbuncle on the vizor.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	first	first	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos|NumForm=Word|NumType=Ord	0	root	_	_
3	to	to	PART	TO	_	4	mark	_	_
4	charge	charge	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	2	acl	_	_
5	from	from	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
6	out	out	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
7	of	of	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
9	ranks	rank	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	obl	_	_
10	of	of	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
11	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
12	heathen	heathen	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	obl	_	_
13	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	14	cop	_	_
14	Chimborin	Chimborin	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	9	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	_
16	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
17	same	same	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	14	conj	_	_
18	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	20	nsubj:pass	_	_
19	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	20	aux	_	_
20	given	give	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	9	conj	_	_
21	to	to	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
22	Ganelon	Ganelon	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	20	obl	_	_
23	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	24	det	_	_
24	helmet	helmet	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	obj	_	_
25	with	with	ADP	IN	_	28	case	_	_
26	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	28	det	_	_
27	great	great	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	28	amod	_	_
28	carbuncle	carbuncle	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	nmod	_	_
29	on	on	ADP	IN	_	31	case	_	_
30	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	31	det	_	_
31	vizor	vizor	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	28	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
32	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **charge** | to-infinitive |  |  |  | the ranks |  |  | vn run-51.3.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme from rank=Trajectory |
| 2 | **is a** | past |  | Chimborin |  |  |  | of the heathen | tree rules |
| 3 | **be** |  |  |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 4 | **give** | past · perfect · passive |  | that | Ganelon |  |  | the helmet *obj* | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: subject=Recipient helmet=Theme |

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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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