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title: Then came forth a Duke from the host of the Saracens, brother to Kin… — Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of F… · tree and pragmatics
description: Then came forth a Duke from the host of the Saracens, brother to King Marsilas, Fausseron by name. Who acts: Duke. 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 17

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Then came forth a Duke from the host of the Saracens, brother to King Marsilas, Fausseron by name.

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**Who acts:** Duke · **What happens:** come · **To what, where:** host

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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 (Duke), 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:pg75339:31:17
# text = Then came forth a Duke from the host of the Saracens, brother to King Marsilas, Fausseron by name.
1	Then	then	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	2	advmod	_	_
2	came	come	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	forth	forth	ADV	RB	_	2	advmod	_	_
4	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	Duke	Duke	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	nsubj	_	_
6	from	from	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	host	host	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obl	_	_
9	of	of	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
10	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
11	Saracens	Saracen	PROPN	NNPS	Number=Plur	8	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
13	brother	brother	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	appos	_	_
14	to	to	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
15	King	King	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	13	nmod	_	_
16	Marsilas	Marsilas	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	15	flat	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	_
18	Fausseron	Fausseron	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	15	conj	_	_
19	by	by	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
20	name	name	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **come** | past | a Duke |  |  | the host of the Saracens | then | forth *property* | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme from host=Initial\_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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