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title: On the other side the Prince Malprime, son to the Emir, rode forward… — Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of F… · tree and pragmatics
description: On the other side the Prince Malprime, son to the Emir, rode forward on his white horse, charging into the midst of the army of France, and striking down warrior after warrior. " Who acts: Malprime. A sentence of «Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France» by Alfred John Church, How Char
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# Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France, How Charlemagne Sought Vengeance, sentence 151

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On the other side the Prince Malprime, son to the Emir, rode forward on his white horse, charging into the midst of the army of France, and striking down warrior after warrior. "

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**Who acts:** Malprime · **What happens:** ride, charge, strike down · **To what, where:** other side, midst, warrior

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This is a sentence of «Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France» by Alfred John Church, How Charlemagne Sought Vengeance. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Malprime), 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:pg75339:36:151
# text = On the other side the Prince Malprime, son to the Emir, rode forward on his white horse, charging into the midst of the army of France, and striking down warrior after warrior. "
1	On	on	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
3	other	other	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	amod	_	_
4	side	side	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	obl	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
6	Prince	Prince	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	7	nmod:desc	_	_
7	Malprime	Malprime	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	14	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	9	punct	_	_
9	son	son	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	appos	_	_
10	to	to	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
11	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
12	Emir	Emir	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	9	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	7	punct	_	_
14	rode	ride	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
15	forward	forward	ADV	RB	_	14	advmod	_	_
16	on	on	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
17	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	19	nmod:poss	_	_
18	white	white	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	19	amod	_	_
19	horse	horse	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	21	punct	_	_
21	charging	charge	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	14	advcl	_	_
22	into	into	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	_
23	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	24	det	_	_
24	midst	midst	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	obl	_	_
25	of	of	ADP	IN	_	27	case	_	_
26	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	27	det	_	_
27	army	army	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	nmod	_	_
28	of	of	ADP	IN	_	29	case	_	_
29	France	France	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	27	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
30	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	32	punct	_	_
31	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	32	cc	_	_
32	striking	strike	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	14	advcl	_	_
33	down	down	ADP	RP	_	32	compound:prt	_	_
34	warrior	warrior	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	32	obj	_	_
35	after	after	ADP	IN	_	36	case	_	_
36	warrior	warrior	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	32	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
37	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	14	punct	_	_
38	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	14	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **ride** | past | the Malprime  Prince |  |  | the other side |  | on Malprime's white horse; forward *property* | vn nonvehicle-51.4.2 «NP.agent V»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **charge** | gerund | the Malprime  Prince *not said here* |  |  | the midst of the army of France |  |  | vn run-51.3.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme into midst=Destination |
| 3 | **strike down** | gerund | the Malprime  Prince *not said here* | warrior |  |  | after warrior |  | vn hit-18.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent warrior=Patient |

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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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