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# Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France, How Huon, Having Slain a Giant, Came to Babylon, sentence 132

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And when he had opened the door, she said to Huon, "Sir Knight, I do greatly admire your constancy, in that you hold out against hunger and thirst, which to many, I doubt not, are harder to be borne than any perils or hurts of battle.

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**Who acts:** Esclairmonde, Huon, battle · **What happens:** open, say, admire, hold out, not doubt, be · **To what, where:** Friend, Huon, constancy, hunger · **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 (Esclairmonde, Huon, battle), 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:pg75339:41:132
# text = And when he had opened the door, she said to Huon, "Sir Knight, I do greatly admire your constancy, in that you hold out against hunger and thirst, which to many, I doubt not, are harder to be borne than any perils or hurts of battle.
1	And	and	CCONJ	CC	_	10	cc	_	_
2	when	when	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	5	advmod	_	_
3	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	5	nsubj:pass	_	_
4	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	aux	_	_
5	opened	open	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	10	ccomp	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	door	door	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	5	punct	_	_
9	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	10	nsubj	_	_
10	said	say	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
11	to	to	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
12	Huon	Huon	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	10	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
14	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	16	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	Sir	Sir	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	16	nmod:desc	_	_
16	Knight	Knight	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	12	appos	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	21	punct	_	_
18	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	21	nsubj	_	_
19	do	do	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	21	aux	_	_
20	greatly	greatly	ADV	RB	_	21	advmod	_	_
21	admire	admire	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	10	conj	_	_
22	your	your	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	23	nmod:poss	_	_
23	constancy	constancy	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	28	punct	_	_
25	in	in	SCONJ	IN	ExtPos=SCONJ	28	mark	_	_
26	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	25	fixed	_	_
27	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	28	nsubj	_	_
28	hold	hold	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	21	conj	_	_
29	out	out	ADP	RP	_	28	compound:prt	_	_
30	against	against	ADP	IN	_	31	case	_	_
31	hunger	hunger	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	28	obl	_	_
32	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	33	cc	_	_
33	thirst	thirst	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	31	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
34	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	37	punct	_	_
35	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	37	nsubj	_	_
36	to	to	ADP	IN	_	37	case	_	_
37	many	many	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	31	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
38	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	40	punct	_	_
39	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	40	nsubj	_	_
40	doubt	doubt	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	21	conj	_	_
41	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	40	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
42	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	44	punct	_	_
43	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	44	cop	_	_
44	harder	hard	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	40	xcomp	_	_
45	to	to	PART	TO	_	47	mark	_	_
46	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	47	aux:pass	_	_
47	borne	bear	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	44	advcl	_	_
48	than	than	ADP	IN	_	50	case	_	_
49	any	any	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	50	det	_	_
50	perils	peril	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	47	obl	_	_
51	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	52	cc	_	_
52	hurts	hurt	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	50	conj	_	_
53	of	of	ADP	IN	_	54	case	_	_
54	battle	battle	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	52	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
55	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	10	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **open** | past · perfect · passive |  | Friend |  |  |  | the door *obj* | vn put\_spatial-9.2 «NP V NP ADVP»: subject=Theme door=Destination |
| 2 | **say** *speech: assert* | past | Esclairmonde |  | Huon |  |  |  | vn indicate-78-1 «NP V PP.recipient whether/if S»: agent=Pivot to huon=Experiencer clause=Topic |
| 3 | **admire** *in a quote* | present · do-support | Esclairmonde | your constancy |  |  |  | greatly *property* | vn admire-31.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer constancy=Stimulus |
| 4 | **hold out** *in a quote* | present | Huon |  |  | hunger and thirst |  |  | vn exist-47.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme against hunger=Location |
| 5 | **not** **doubt** *in a quote* | present | Esclairmonde |  |  |  |  |  | vn judgment-33.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
| 6 | **is** *in a quote* | present | Esclairmonde *not said here* |  |  |  |  | hard *property* | tree rules |
| 7 | **bear** *in a quote* | to-infinitive · passive | Esclairmonde *not said here* |  |  |  |  | than any perils or hurts of battle | vn admire-31.2 «NP V that S» |
| 8 | **hurt** *in a quote* |  | battle |  |  |  |  |  | nom hurt «state intransitive»: of=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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