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title: And as he spake he took his cloak and rent it into strips and bound… — Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of F… · tree and pragmatics
description: And as he spake he took his cloak and rent it into strips and bound up Walter's wounds therewith. Who acts: Roland, Walter. A sentence of «Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France» by Alfred John Church, How Archbishop Turpin Died, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every cl
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# Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France, How Archbishop Turpin Died, sentence 19

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And as he spake he took his cloak and rent it into strips and bound up Walter's wounds therewith.

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**Who acts:** Roland, Walter · **What happens:** take, rent, bind up, wound · **To what, where:** cloak, strips, wounds

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This is a sentence of «Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France» by Alfred John Church, How Archbishop Turpin Died. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Roland, Walter), 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:pg75339:34:19
# text = And as he spake he took his cloak and rent it into strips and bound up Walter's wounds therewith.
1	And	and	CCONJ	CC	_	6	cc	_	_
2	as	as	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
3	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	4	nsubj	_	_
4	spake	speak	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obl	_	_
5	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	6	nsubj	_	_
6	took	take	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
7	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	8	nmod:poss	_	_
8	cloak	cloak	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obj	_	_
9	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	10	cc	_	_
10	rent	rent	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|Typo=Yes|VerbForm=Fin	6	conj	_	_
11	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	10	obj	_	_
12	into	into	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
13	strips	strip	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	10	obl	_	_
14	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	15	cc	_	_
15	bound	bind	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	10	conj	_	_
16	up	up	ADP	RP	_	15	compound:prt	_	_
17	Walter	Walter	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	19	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	's	's	PART	POS	_	17	case	_	_
19	wounds	wound	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	15	obj	_	_
20	therewith	therewith	ADV	RB	_	15	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **take** | past | Roland | Roland's cloak |  |  |  | as spake  Roland | vn characterize-29.2 «NP V NP S\_ING»: agent=Agent cloak=Theme as speak=Attribute |
| 2 | **rent** | present | Roland *not said here* | cloak |  | strips |  |  | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme |
| 3 | **bind up** | participle | Roland *not said here* | Walter's wounds |  |  |  | therewith *property* | vn shake-22.3-2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent wound=Patient |
| 4 | **wound** |  | Walter |  |  |  |  |  | nom wound «state 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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