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title: Now there had come to the support of Ganelon thirty men of his kindr… — Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of F… · tree and pragmatics
description: Now there had come to the support of Ganelon thirty men of his kindred, of whom the chief was a certain Pinabel. Who acts: chief. A sentence of «Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France» by Alfred John Church, Of the Punishment of Ganelon, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of 
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# Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France, Of the Punishment of Ganelon, sentence 19

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Now there had come to the support of Ganelon thirty men of his kindred, of whom the chief was a certain Pinabel.

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**Who acts:** chief · **What happens:** come, be, support · **To what, where:** support, certain Pinabel, thirty men

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This is a sentence of «Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France» by Alfred John Church, Of the Punishment of Ganelon. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (chief), 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:pg75339:37:19
# text = Now there had come to the support of Ganelon thirty men of his kindred, of whom the chief was a certain Pinabel.
1	Now	now	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	4	advmod	_	_
2	there	there	PRON	EX	PronType=Dem	4	expl	_	_
3	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	aux	_	_
4	come	come	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	0	root	_	_
5	to	to	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	support	support	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	_
8	of	of	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
9	Ganelon	Ganelon	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	10	nmod:unmarked	_	_
10	thirty	thirty	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	11	compound	_	_
11	men	man	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	7	nmod	_	_
12	of	of	SCONJ	IN	_	14	mark	_	_
13	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	14	nmod:poss	_	_
14	kindred	kindred	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	11	acl	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	_
16	of	of	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
17	whom	whom	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	14	obl	_	_
18	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	19	det	_	_
19	chief	chief	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	nsubj	_	_
20	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	23	cop	_	_
21	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	23	det	_	_
22	certain	certain	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	23	amod	_	_
23	Pinabel	Pinabel	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	17	acl:relcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **come** | past · perfect |  |  |  | the support of thirty men; there | now |  | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme to support=Initial\_Location |
| 2 | **is a** | past | the chief | a certain Pinabel |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **support** |  |  | thirty men |  |  |  |  | nom support «act transitive»: of=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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