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# Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France, How Huon, Having Slain a Giant, Came to Babylon, sentence 36

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The giant answered, "Not a hundred such as you would prevail over me were I armed; even now I fear you not." "

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**Who acts:** giant, you, hundred · **What happens:** answer, prevail, be, not fear · **To what, where:** you · **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 (giant, you, hundred), 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:pg75339:41:36
# text = The giant answered, "Not a hundred such as you would prevail over me were I armed; even now I fear you not." "
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	giant	giant	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
3	answered	answer	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	_
5	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	18	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	Not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	8	advmod	_	_
7	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	hundred	hundred	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	18	nsubj	_	_
9	such	such	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos|ExtPos=SCONJ	13	mark	_	_
10	as	as	ADP	IN	_	9	fixed	_	_
11	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	13	nsubj	_	_
12	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	13	aux	_	_
13	prevail	prevail	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	8	acl	_	_
14	over	over	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
15	me	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	13	obl	_	_
16	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	18	cop	_	_
17	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	18	nsubj	_	_
18	armed	armed	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	ccomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	23	punct	_	_
20	even	even	ADV	RB	_	21	advmod	_	_
21	now	now	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	23	advmod	_	_
22	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	23	nsubj	_	_
23	fear	fear	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	3	parataxis	_	_
24	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Person=2|PronType=Prs	23	obj	_	_
25	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	23	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	23	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	23	punct	_	_
28	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	3	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **answer** *speech: assert* | past | the giant |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **prevail** *in a quote* | would | you |  |  |  |  | over the giant *= giant* | vn exist-47.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme over i=Location |
| 3 | **is** *in a quote* | past | a hundred |  |  |  |  | I *nsubj*; armed *property* | tree rules |
| 4 | **not** **fear** *in a quote* | present | the giant *= giant* | you |  |  | now |  | vn admire-31.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer you=Stimulus |

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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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