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title: Then Huon, lighting from his horse, searched for Gerard's wound, and… — Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of F… · tree and pragmatics
description: Then Huon, lighting from his horse, searched for Gerard's wound, and finding that it was of less account than he had thought, bound it up with a strip of his shirt. Who acts: Huon, steel, Prince, finding. A sentence of «Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France» by Alfred John Church, Ho
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# Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France, How King Charles Sent Huon on an Errand, sentence 51

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Then Huon, lighting from his horse, searched for Gerard's wound, and finding that it was of less account than he had thought, bound it up with a strip of his shirt.

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**Who acts:** Huon, steel, Prince, finding, Gerard · **What happens:** light, search, find, be, think, bound up · **To what, where:** steel · **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 (Huon, steel, Prince, finding), 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:pg75339:38:51
# text = Then Huon, lighting from his horse, searched for Gerard's wound, and finding that it was of less account than he had thought, bound it up with a strip of his shirt.
1	Then	then	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	2	advmod	_	_
2	Huon	Huon	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	9	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	4	punct	_	_
4	lighting	light	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	2	acl	_	_
5	from	from	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
6	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	7	nmod:poss	_	_
7	horse	horse	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	2	punct	_	_
9	searched	search	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
10	for	for	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
11	Gerard	Gerard	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	13	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	's	's	PART	POS	_	11	case	_	_
13	wound	wound	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
15	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	16	cc	_	_
16	finding	find	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	28	csubj	_	_
17	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	22	mark	_	_
18	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	22	nsubj	_	_
19	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	22	cop	_	_
20	of	of	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
21	less	less	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	22	amod	_	_
22	account	account	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	ccomp	_	_
23	than	than	SCONJ	IN	_	26	mark	_	_
24	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	26	nsubj	_	_
25	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	26	aux	_	_
26	thought	think	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	28	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	26	punct	_	_
28	bound	bound	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	9	parataxis	_	_
29	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	28	obj	_	_
30	up	up	ADP	RP	_	28	compound:prt	_	_
31	with	with	ADP	IN	_	33	case	_	_
32	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	33	det	_	_
33	strip	strip	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	28	obl	_	_
34	of	of	ADP	IN	_	36	case	_	_
35	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	36	nmod:poss	_	_
36	shirt	shirt	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	33	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
37	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	9	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **light** | gerund | Huon *not said here* |  |  |  |  | from Prince's horse | vn preparing-26.3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent from horse=Material |
| 2 | **search** | past | Huon |  |  |  |  | for Gerard's wound | vn search-35.2 «NP V PP.theme NP.location»: agent=Agent for wound=Theme |
| 3 | **find** | gerund |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn declare-29.4-1-1 «NP V what S\_INF»: agent=Agent |
| 4 | **is** | past | steel |  |  |  |  | of less account | tree rules |
| 5 | **think** *speech: other* | past · perfect | Prince |  |  |  |  |  | vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 6 | **bound up** | infinitive | finding | steel |  |  |  | with a strip of Prince's shirt | vn run-51.3.2 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Initial\_Location it=Theme |
| 7 | **wound** |  | Gerard |  |  |  |  |  | nom wound «state transitive»: poss=agent |

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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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