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title: And Turpin gave him also blessing and absolution. — Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of F… · tree and pragmatics
description: And Turpin gave him also blessing and absolution. Who acts: Turpin. 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 clause.
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# Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France, How Archbishop Turpin Died, sentence 74

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And Turpin gave him also blessing and absolution.

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**Who acts:** Turpin · **What happens:** give, bless · **To what, where:** Roland

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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 (Turpin), 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:pg75339:34:74
# text = And Turpin gave him also blessing and absolution.
1	And	and	CCONJ	CC	_	3	cc	_	_
2	Turpin	Turpin	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
3	gave	give	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	iobj	_	_
5	also	also	ADV	RB	_	6	advmod	_	_
6	blessing	bless	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	3	advcl	_	_
7	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	8	cc	_	_
8	absolution	absolution	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **give** | past | Turpin |  | Roland |  |  |  | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Theme |
| 2 | **bless** | gerund | Turpin *not said here* |  |  |  |  | absolution *conj* | vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=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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