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title: King Almaris, with a great host of heathen, coming by an unknown way… — Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of F… · tree and pragmatics
description: King Almaris, with a great host of heathen, coming by an unknown way, fell upon the rear of the host where there was another pass. Who acts: great host, King. A sentence of «Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France» by Alfred John Church, The Battle, with its dependency tree and the pra
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# Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France, The Battle, sentence 62

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King Almaris, with a great host of heathen, coming by an unknown way, fell upon the rear of the host where there was another pass.

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**Who acts:** great host, King · **What happens:** come, fall · **To what, where:** rear

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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 (great host, King), 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:pg75339:31:62
# text = King Almaris, with a great host of heathen, coming by an unknown way, fell upon the rear of the host where there was another pass.
1	King	King	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	17	nsubj	_	_
2	Almaris	Almaris	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	1	flat	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	7	punct	_	_
4	with	with	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
5	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
6	great	great	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	amod	_	_
7	host	host	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	list	_	_
8	of	of	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
9	heathen	heathen	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
11	coming	come	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	7	acl	_	_
12	by	by	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
13	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
14	unknown	unknown	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	15	amod	_	_
15	way	way	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	1	punct	_	_
17	fell	fall	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
18	upon	upon	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
19	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	20	det	_	_
20	rear	rear	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	obl	_	_
21	of	of	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
22	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	23	det	_	_
23	host	host	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	nmod	_	_
24	where	where	ADV	WRB	PronType=Rel	26	advmod	_	_
25	there	there	PRON	EX	PronType=Dem	26	expl	_	_
26	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	23	acl:relcl	_	_
27	another	another	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	28	det	_	_
28	pass	pass	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	26	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
29	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	17	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **come** | gerund | a great host of heathen *not said here* |  |  |  |  | by a unknown way | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme by way=Location |
| 2 | **fall** | past | King with a great host of heathen |  |  | the rear of the host |  |  | vn occur-48.3 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme upon rear=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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