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title: He clomb down from his horse, and laid himself upon the ground, and… — Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of F… · tree and pragmatics
description: He clomb down from his horse, and laid himself upon the ground, and clasping his hands lifted them to heaven and made his confession. " Who acts: Oliver, clomb, clasping. A sentence of «Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France» by Alfred John Church, How Oliver Was Slain, with its depen
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# Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France, How Oliver Was Slain, sentence 59

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He clomb down from his horse, and laid himself upon the ground, and clasping his hands lifted them to heaven and made his confession. "

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**Who acts:** Oliver, clomb, clasping · **What happens:** clomb, lay, clasp, lift, make, confess · **To what, where:** Oliver, ground, hands, pains, heaven, confession

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This is a sentence of «Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France» by Alfred John Church, How Oliver Was Slain. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Oliver, clomb, clasping), 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:pg75339:33:59
# text = He clomb down from his horse, and laid himself upon the ground, and clasping his hands lifted them to heaven and made his confession. "
1	He	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	nsubj	_	_
2	clomb	clomb	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	nsubj	_	_
3	down	down	ADV	RB	_	2	advmod	_	_
4	from	from	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
5	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	6	nmod:poss	_	_
6	horse	horse	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	9	punct	_	_
8	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	9	cc	_	_
9	laid	lay	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
10	himself	himself	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs|Reflex=Yes	9	obj	_	_
11	upon	upon	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
12	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
13	ground	ground	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	19	punct	_	_
15	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	19	cc	_	_
16	clasping	clasp	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	19	csubj	_	_
17	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	18	nmod:poss	_	_
18	hands	hand	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	16	obj	_	_
19	lifted	lift	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	9	conj	_	_
20	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	19	obj	_	_
21	to	to	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
22	heaven	heaven	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	obl	_	_
23	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	24	cc	_	_
24	made	make	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	19	conj	_	_
25	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	26	nmod:poss	_	_
26	confession	confession	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	9	punct	_	_
28	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	9	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **clomb** |  | Oliver |  |  |  |  | down *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **lay** | past | clomb | Oliver |  | the ground |  |  | vn put\_spatial-9.2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent himself=Theme upon ground=Destination |
| 3 | **clasp** | gerund |  | Oliver's hands |  |  |  |  | vn hold-15.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent hand=Theme |
| 4 | **lift** | past | clasping | pains *= pain* |  | heaven |  |  | vn put\_direction-9.4 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent they=Theme to heaven=Destination |
| 5 | **make** | past | clasping *not said here* | Oliver's confession |  |  |  |  | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset confession=Product |
| 6 | **confess** |  | Oliver |  |  |  |  |  | nom confession «communication transitive»: poss=agent |

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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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