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description: So now he said to Charlot, "Yonder are Huon and Gerard; ride out against them, for they are but weaklings." Who acts: two, Huon. A sentence of «Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France» by Alfred John Church, How King Charles Sent Huon on an Errand, with its dependency tree and the prag
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# Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France, How King Charles Sent Huon on an Errand, sentence 26

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So now he said to Charlot, "Yonder are Huon and Gerard; ride out against them, for they are but weaklings."

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**Who acts:** two, Huon · **What happens:** say, be, ride out · **To what, where:** Charlot, Huon · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of «Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France» by Alfred John Church, How King Charles Sent Huon on an Errand. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (two, Huon), 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:pg75339:38:26
# text = So now he said to Charlot, "Yonder are Huon and Gerard; ride out against them, for they are but weaklings."
1	So	so	ADV	RB	_	4	advmod	_	_
2	now	now	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	4	advmod	_	_
3	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	4	nsubj	_	_
4	said	say	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	to	to	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
6	Charlot	Charlot	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	4	punct	_	_
8	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	9	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	Yonder	yonder	ADV	RB	_	11	advmod	_	_
10	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	11	cop	_	_
11	Huon	Huon	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	_
12	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	13	cc	_	_
13	Gerard	Gerard	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	11	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	15	punct	_	_
15	ride	ride	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	4	parataxis	_	_
16	out	out	ADV	RB	_	15	advmod	_	_
17	against	against	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
18	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	15	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	24	punct	_	_
20	for	for	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	_
21	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	24	nsubj	_	_
22	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	24	cop	_	_
23	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	24	cc	_	_
24	weaklings	weakling	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	15	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	15	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	15	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **say** *speech: assert* | past | two |  | Charlot |  | now |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V PP.recipient S-Quote»: agent=Agent to charlot=Recipient clause=Topic |
| 2 | **is a** *in a quote* | present |  | Huon and Gerard |  |  |  | Gerard *conj*; yonder *property* | tree rules |
| 3 | **ride out** *in a quote* | infinitive |  |  |  |  |  | against Huon; out *property* | vn nonvehicle-51.4.2 «NP.agent V»: agent=Agent |
| 4 | **is** *in a quote* | present | Huon |  |  |  |  | for weaklings | tree rules |

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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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