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title: So Charlot rode forth and held the way by which the two brothers mus… — Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of F… · tree and pragmatics
description: So Charlot rode forth and held the way by which the two brothers must pass. Who acts: Charlot, two brothers. 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 pragmatics of every clau
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# Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France, How King Charles Sent Huon on an Errand, sentence 28

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So Charlot rode forth and held the way by which the two brothers must pass.

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**Who acts:** Charlot, two brothers · **What happens:** ride, hold, pass · **To what, where:** way

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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 (Charlot, two brothers), 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:pg75339:38:28
# text = So Charlot rode forth and held the way by which the two brothers must pass.
1	So	so	ADV	RB	_	3	advmod	_	_
2	Charlot	Charlot	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
3	rode	ride	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	forth	forth	ADV	RB	_	3	advmod	_	_
5	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	6	cc	_	_
6	held	hold	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	way	way	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obj	_	_
9	by	by	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
10	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	15	obl	_	_
11	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
12	two	two	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	13	nummod	_	_
13	brothers	brother	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	15	nsubj	_	_
14	must	must	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	15	aux	_	_
15	pass	pass	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	8	acl:relcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **ride** | past | Charlot |  |  |  |  | forth *property* | vn nonvehicle-51.4.2 «NP.agent V»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **hold** | past | Charlot *not said here* | the way |  |  |  |  | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent way=Theme |
| 3 | **pass** | must | the two brothers |  |  |  |  | by the way | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme by which=Location |

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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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