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title: Turpin the Archbishop heard him--not one was there in all the heathe… — Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of F… · tree and pragmatics
description: Turpin the Archbishop heard him--not one was there in all the heathen host whom Turpin more hated--and charged him, spear in hand, and bore him dead to the ground. Who acts: Turpin, one. A sentence of «Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France» by Alfred John Church, The Battle, with its
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# Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France, The Battle, sentence 36

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Turpin the Archbishop heard him--not one was there in all the heathen host whom Turpin more hated--and charged him, spear in hand, and bore him dead to the ground.

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**Who acts:** Turpin, one · **What happens:** hear, be, hate, charge, bear · **To what, where:** King, heathen host, Turpin

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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 (Turpin, one), 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:pg75339:31:36
# text = Turpin the Archbishop heard him--not one was there in all the heathen host whom Turpin more hated--and charged him, spear in hand, and bore him dead to the ground.
1	Turpin	Turpin	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	Archbishop	Archbishop	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	1	appos	_	_
4	heard	hear	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	4	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	--	--	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	8	advmod	_	_
8	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	10	nsubj	_	_
9	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	10	cop	_	_
10	there	there	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	4	parataxis	_	_
11	in	in	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
12	all	all	DET	PDT	PronType=Tot	15	det:predet	_	_
13	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
14	heathen	heathen	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	15	amod	_	_
15	host	host	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obl	_	_
16	whom	whom	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	17	punct	_	_
17	Turpin	Turpin	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	15	appos	_	_
18	more	more	ADV	RBR	Degree=Cmp	19	advmod	_	_
19	hated	hate	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	17	acl	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	--	--	PUNCT	,	_	22	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	22	cc	_	_
22	charged	charge	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	conj	_	_
23	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	22	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	25	punct	_	_
25	spear	spear	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	obl	_	_
26	in	in	ADP	IN	_	27	case	_	_
27	hand	hand	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	30	punct	_	_
29	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	30	cc	_	_
30	bore	bear	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	conj	_	_
31	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	30	obj	_	_
32	dead	dead	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	30	xcomp	_	_
33	to	to	ADP	IN	_	35	case	_	_
34	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	35	det	_	_
35	ground	ground	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	30	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
36	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **hear** | past | Turpin | King |  |  |  |  | vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer he=Stimulus |
| 2 | **is** | past | one |  |  | all heathen host |  | there *property* | tree rules |
| 3 | **hate** | participle |  | Turpin *not said here* |  |  |  |  | vn admire-31.2-1 «NP V S\_INF»: agent=Experiencer |
| 4 | **charge** | past | Turpin *not said here* | King |  |  |  | spear in hand *obl* | vn run-51.3.2 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Initial\_Location he=Theme |
| 5 | **bear** | past | Turpin *not said here* | King |  |  |  | to the ground; dead *property* | vn birth-28.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Patient |

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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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