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description: This tower I took from Oberon, who is a great Prince in these parts, and with it a suit of armour which no one may wear save he be without guilt. Who acts: tower, Oberon, one. A sentence of «Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France» by Alfred John Church, How Huon, Having Slain a Giant,
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# Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France, How Huon, Having Slain a Giant, Came to Babylon, sentence 42

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This tower I took from Oberon, who is a great Prince in these parts, and with it a suit of armour which no one may wear save he be without guilt.

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**Who acts:** tower, Oberon, one · **What happens:** take, be, wear, save · **To what, where:** Oberon, great Prince, suit

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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 (tower, Oberon, one), 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:pg75339:41:42
# text = This tower I took from Oberon, who is a great Prince in these parts, and with it a suit of armour which no one may wear save he be without guilt.
1	This	this	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	2	det	_	_
2	tower	tower	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
3	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	4	nsubj	_	_
4	took	take	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	from	from	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
6	Oberon	Oberon	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
8	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	12	nsubj	_	_
9	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	12	cop	_	_
10	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
11	great	great	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	12	amod	_	_
12	Prince	Prince	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	6	appos	_	_
13	in	in	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
14	these	this	DET	DT	Number=Plur|PronType=Dem	15	det	_	_
15	parts	part	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	21	punct	_	_
17	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	21	cc	_	_
18	with	with	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
19	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	21	obl	_	_
20	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	21	det	_	_
21	suit	suit	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	parataxis	_	_
22	of	of	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
23	armour	armour	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	nmod	_	_
24	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	28	obj	_	_
25	no	no	DET	DT	PronType=Neg	26	det	_	_
26	one	one	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	28	nsubj	_	_
27	may	may	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	28	aux	_	_
28	wear	wear	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	21	parataxis	_	_
29	save	save	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	28	xcomp	_	_
30	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	33	nsubj	_	_
31	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	33	cop	_	_
32	without	without	ADP	IN	_	33	case	_	_
33	guilt	guilt	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	29	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
34	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **take** | past | this tower |  |  | Oberon |  | in this parts; I *nsubj*; a suit with Admiral of armour *parataxis* | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP PP.initial\_location»: agent=Agent from oberon=Initial\_Location |
| 2 | **is a** | present | Oberon | a great Prince |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **wear** | may | no one | a suit with Admiral of armour |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 4 | **save** | infinitive | no one *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
| 5 | **is** | infinitive | Oberon |  |  |  |  | without guilt | tree rules |

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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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