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# Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France, How Huon, Having Slain a Giant, Came to Babylon, sentence 4

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But if a man could by any means pass into the tower, and overcome the giant, then he would find treasures without end.

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**Who acts:** swallow · **What happens:** mean, pass, overcome, find · **To what, where:** tower, giant, treasures · **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 (swallow), 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:pg75339:41:4
# text = But if a man could by any means pass into the tower, and overcome the giant, then he would find treasures without end.
1	But	but	CCONJ	CC	_	8	cc	_	_
2	if	if	SCONJ	IN	_	5	mark	_	_
3	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	man	man	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	_
5	could	could	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	8	aux	_	_
6	by	by	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
7	any	any	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	5	obl	_	_
8	means	mean	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
9	pass	pass	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	8	ccomp	_	_
10	into	into	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
11	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
12	tower	tower	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
14	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	15	cc	_	_
15	overcome	overcome	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	9	parataxis	_	_
16	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
17	giant	giant	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	15	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	22	punct	_	_
19	then	then	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	22	advmod	_	_
20	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	22	nsubj	_	_
21	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	22	aux	_	_
22	find	find	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	15	conj	_	_
23	treasures	treasure	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	22	obj	_	_
24	without	without	ADP	IN	_	25	case	_	_
25	end	end	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	8	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **mean** | could |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 2 | **pass** | infinitive |  |  |  | the tower |  |  | vn escape-51.1-1-3 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme into tower=Initial\_Location |
| 3 | **overcome** | infinitive |  | the giant |  |  |  |  | vn exceed-90 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot giant=Theme |
| 4 | **find** | would | swallow | treasures |  |  | without end; then |  | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent treasure=Topic |

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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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