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title: And this the pagans did, and for all the valour of Huon and Geoffrey… — Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of F… · tree and pragmatics
description: And this the pagans did, and for all the valour of Huon and Geoffrey and the prisoners the castle was very like to be taken. Who acts: pagans, castle. A sentence of «Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France» by Alfred John Church, Of the End of the False Duke Macaire, with its dependenc
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# Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France, Of the End of the False Duke Macaire, sentence 74

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And this the pagans did, and for all the valour of Huon and Geoffrey and the prisoners the castle was very like to be taken.

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**Who acts:** pagans, castle · **What happens:** do, be, take

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This is a sentence of «Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France» by Alfred John Church, Of the End of the False Duke Macaire. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (pagans, castle), 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:pg75339:40:74
# text = And this the pagans did, and for all the valour of Huon and Geoffrey and the prisoners the castle was very like to be taken.
1	And	and	CCONJ	CC	_	5	cc	_	_
2	this	this	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	4	det	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	pagans	pagan	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	nsubj	_	_
5	did	do	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	23	punct	_	_
7	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	23	cc	_	_
8	for	for	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
9	all	all	DET	PDT	PronType=Tot	11	det:predet	_	_
10	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
11	valour	valour	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	obl	_	_
12	of	of	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
13	Huon	Huon	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	11	nmod	_	_
14	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	15	cc	_	_
15	Geoffrey	Geoffrey	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	13	conj	_	_
16	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	18	cc	_	_
17	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
18	prisoners	prisoner	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	13	conj	_	_
19	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	20	det	_	_
20	castle	castle	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	nsubj	_	_
21	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	23	cop	_	_
22	very	very	ADV	RB	_	23	advmod	_	_
23	like	like	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	5	conj	_	_
24	to	to	PART	TO	_	26	mark	_	_
25	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	26	aux:pass	_	_
26	taken	take	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	23	xcomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **do** | past | this pagans |  |  |  |  |  | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **is** | past | the castle |  |  |  |  | for all valour of Huon and Geoffrey and the prisoners; like *property* | tree rules |
| 3 | **take** *not said to happen* | to-infinitive · passive | the castle *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP» |

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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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