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title: After these things it was told Huon that there was a certain tower n… — Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of F… · tree and pragmatics
description: After these things it was told Huon that there was a certain tower not far from the city of Tormont, a very marvellous place where there dwelt a giant, Angolafer by name. Who acts: certain tower. A sentence of «Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France» by Alfred John Church, How Huon, H
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# Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France, How Huon, Having Slain a Giant, Came to Babylon, sentence 1

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After these things it was told Huon that there was a certain tower not far from the city of Tormont, a very marvellous place where there dwelt a giant, Angolafer by name.

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**Who acts:** certain tower · **What happens:** tell, be, dwell · **To what, where:** things, Huon, giant Angolafer · **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, Having Slain a Giant, Came to Babylon. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (certain tower), 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:pg75339:41:1
# text = After these things it was told Huon that there was a certain tower not far from the city of Tormont, a very marvellous place where there dwelt a giant, Angolafer by name.
1	After	after	SCONJ	IN	_	6	mark	_	_
2	these	this	DET	DT	Number=Plur|PronType=Dem	3	det	_	_
3	things	thing	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	nsubj:pass	_	_
4	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	6	nsubj:pass	_	_
5	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	6	aux:pass	_	_
6	told	tell	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
7	Huon	Huon	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	6	iobj	_	_
8	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	10	mark	_	_
9	there	there	PRON	EX	PronType=Dem	10	expl	_	_
10	was	be	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	6	ccomp	_	_
11	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
12	certain	certain	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	13	amod	_	_
13	tower	tower	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	nsubj	_	_
14	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	15	advmod	_	_
15	far	far	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	18	advmod	_	_
16	from	from	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
17	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
18	city	city	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	nmod	_	_
19	of	of	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
20	Tormont	Tormont	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	18	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	25	punct	_	_
22	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	25	det	_	_
23	very	very	ADV	RB	_	24	advmod	_	_
24	marvellous	marvellous	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	25	amod	_	_
25	place	place	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	conj	_	_
26	where	where	ADV	WRB	PronType=Rel	28	advmod	_	_
27	there	there	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	28	advmod	_	_
28	dwelt	dwell	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	25	acl:relcl	_	_
29	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	32	det	_	_
30	giant	giant	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	32	amod	_	SpaceAfter=No
31	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	30	punct	_	_
32	Angolafer	Angolafer	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	28	obj	_	_
33	by	by	ADP	IN	_	34	case	_	_
34	name	name	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	28	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
35	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
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## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **tell** *speech: assert* | past · passive |  | this things | Huon |  |  | it *nsubj:pass* | tree rules |
| 2 | **be** | past | a certain tower from the city of Tormont and a marvellous place |  |  | there |  |  | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 3 | **dwell** | past |  | a giant Angolafer |  | there |  | by name | vn lodge-46 «NP V ADV»: agent=Theme angolafer=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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