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# Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France, How Huon Met With King Oberon, sentence 14

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And when Huon had told his story, then the old man related how he had been sent on pilgrimage to Jerusalem, because he had slain a knight in a tourney, and how on his way home he had been taken prisoner by Saracens and carried to Babylon, from which place he had escaped after two years. "

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**Who acts:** Huon, old man, man, Saracens · **What happens:** tell, relate, send, slay, take, carry · **To what, where:** story, man, Jerusalem, pilgrimage, knight, tourney · **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 Huon Met With King Oberon. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Huon, old man, man, Saracens), 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:pg75339:39:14
# text = And when Huon had told his story, then the old man related how he had been sent on pilgrimage to Jerusalem, because he had slain a knight in a tourney, and how on his way home he had been taken prisoner by Saracens and carried to Babylon, from which place he had escaped after two years. "
1	And	and	CCONJ	CC	_	5	cc	_	_
2	when	when	SCONJ	WRB	_	5	mark	_	_
3	Huon	Huon	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	_
4	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	aux	_	_
5	told	tell	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	0	root	_	_
6	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	7	nmod:poss	_	_
7	story	story	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
9	then	then	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	13	advmod	_	_
10	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
11	old	old	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	12	amod	_	_
12	man	man	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	nsubj	_	_
13	related	relate	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	parataxis	_	_
14	how	how	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	18	advmod	_	_
15	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	18	nsubj	_	_
16	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	18	aux	_	_
17	been	be	AUX	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	18	aux:pass	_	_
18	sent	send	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	13	ccomp	_	_
19	on	on	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
20	pilgrimage	pilgrimage	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	obl	_	_
21	to	to	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
22	Jerusalem	Jerusalem	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	18	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	27	punct	_	_
24	because	because	SCONJ	IN	_	27	mark	_	_
25	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	27	nsubj	_	_
26	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	27	aux	_	_
27	slain	slay	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	18	advcl	_	_
28	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	29	det	_	_
29	knight	knight	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	27	obj	_	_
30	in	in	ADP	IN	_	32	case	_	_
31	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	32	det	_	_
32	tourney	tourney	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	29	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
33	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	43	punct	_	_
34	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	43	cc	_	_
35	how	how	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	43	advmod	_	_
36	on	on	ADP	IN	_	38	case	_	_
37	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	38	nmod:poss	_	_
38	way	way	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	43	obl	_	_
39	home	home	ADV	RB	_	38	advmod	_	_
40	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	43	nsubj	_	_
41	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	43	aux	_	_
42	been	be	AUX	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	43	aux:pass	_	_
43	taken	take	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	13	conj	_	_
44	prisoner	prisoner	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	43	xcomp	_	_
45	by	by	ADP	IN	_	46	case	_	_
46	Saracens	saracen	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	43	obl	_	_
47	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	48	cc	_	_
48	carried	carry	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	43	conj	_	_
49	to	to	ADP	IN	_	50	case	_	_
50	Babylon	Babylon	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	48	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
51	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	54	punct	_	_
52	from	from	ADP	IN	_	54	case	_	_
53	which	which	DET	WDT	PronType=Int	54	det	_	_
54	place	place	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	48	advcl	_	_
55	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	57	nsubj	_	_
56	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	57	aux	_	_
57	escaped	escape	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	54	acl:relcl	_	_
58	after	after	ADP	IN	_	60	case	_	_
59	two	two	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	60	nummod	_	_
60	years	year	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	57	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
61	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
62	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	5	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **tell** *speech: assert* | past · perfect | Huon | man's story |  |  |  |  | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent story=Recipient |
| 2 | **relate** | past | the old man |  |  |  | then |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 3 | **send** | past · perfect · passive |  | man | Jerusalem | pilgrimage |  |  | vn confine-92-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: subject=Theme to jerusalem=Destination |
| 4 | **slay** | past · perfect | man | a knight |  | a tourney |  |  | vn murder-42.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent knight=Patient |
| 5 | **take** | past · perfect · passive | Saracens | man |  | man's way |  | prisoner *xcomp* | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent subject=Theme on way=Destination |
| 6 | **carry** | past | Saracens *not said here* |  | Babylon |  |  | which place *advcl* | vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent to babylon=Destination |
| 7 | **escape** | past · perfect | man | which place *not said here* |  |  | year |  | vn escape-51.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme place=Initial\_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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