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title: A mighty army it was, divided into twenty columns, and the trumpets… — Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of F… · tree and pragmatics
description: A mighty army it was, divided into twenty columns, and the trumpets sounded the charge. Who acts: trumpets. 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 76

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A mighty army it was, divided into twenty columns, and the trumpets sounded the charge.

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**Who acts:** trumpets · **What happens:** divide, sound · **To what, where:** mighty army, twenty columns, charge

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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 (trumpets), 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:pg75339:31:76
# text = A mighty army it was, divided into twenty columns, and the trumpets sounded the charge.
1	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	mighty	mighty	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	army	army	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	nsubj:pass	_	_
4	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	7	nsubj:pass	_	_
5	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	7	aux:pass	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	7	punct	_	_
7	divided	divide	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
8	into	into	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
9	twenty	twenty	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	10	nummod	_	_
10	columns	column	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	7	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
12	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	15	cc	_	_
13	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
14	trumpets	trumpet	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	15	nsubj	_	_
15	sounded	sound	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	7	conj	_	_
16	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
17	charge	charge	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	7	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **divide** | past · passive |  | a mighty army |  | twenty columns |  | army *nsubj:pass* | vn multiply-108-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme |
| 2 | **sound** | past | the trumpets | the charge |  |  |  |  | vn sound\_emission-43.2 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location charge=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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