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title: A great orator was this Pinabel, when there was need of pleading a c… — Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of F… · tree and pragmatics
description: A great orator was this Pinabel, when there was need of pleading a cause, and a good soldier also, when there was need of arms. Who acts: great orator, need. A sentence of «Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France» by Alfred John Church, Of the Punishment of Ganelon, with its dependency
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# Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France, Of the Punishment of Ganelon, sentence 20

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A great orator was this Pinabel, when there was need of pleading a cause, and a good soldier also, when there was need of arms.

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**Who acts:** great orator, need · **What happens:** be, plead, need · **To what, where:** need, cause, arms

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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 (great orator, need), 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:pg75339:37:20
# text = A great orator was this Pinabel, when there was need of pleading a cause, and a good soldier also, when there was need of arms.
1	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	great	great	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	orator	orator	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	nsubj	_	_
4	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	11	cop	_	_
5	this	this	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	6	det	_	_
6	Pinabel	Pinabel	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	11	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
8	when	when	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	10	advmod	_	_
9	there	there	PRON	EX	PronType=Dem	10	expl	_	_
10	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	11	cop	_	_
11	need	need	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
12	of	of	SCONJ	IN	_	13	mark	_	_
13	pleading	plead	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	11	acl	_	_
14	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
15	cause	cause	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	20	punct	_	_
17	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	20	cc	_	_
18	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	20	det	_	_
19	good	good	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	20	amod	_	_
20	soldier	soldier	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	appos	_	_
21	also	also	ADV	RB	_	20	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	25	punct	_	_
23	when	when	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	25	advmod	_	_
24	there	there	PRON	EX	PronType=Dem	25	expl	_	_
25	was	be	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	11	conj	_	_
26	need	need	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	nsubj	_	_
27	of	of	ADP	IN	_	28	case	_	_
28	arms	arm	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	26	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
29	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	11	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** | past | a great orator | need |  |  |  | this Pinabel *nsubj*; a good soldier *appos* | tree rules |
| 2 | **plead** *speech: request* | gerund | need *not said here* | a cause |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **be** | past | need of arms |  |  | there |  |  | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 4 | **need** |  |  | arms |  |  |  |  | nom need «state 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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