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title: So they took the ship, the pagans not being able to hinder them. — Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of F… · tree and pragmatics
description: So they took the ship, the pagans not being able to hinder them. Who acts: Gerames. A sentence of «Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France» by Alfred John Church, How Huon Returned, His Errand Fulfilled, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France, How Huon Returned, His Errand Fulfilled, sentence 5

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So they took the ship, the pagans not being able to hinder them.

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**Who acts:** Gerames · **What happens:** take, not be, hinder · **To what, where:** ship, Gerames

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This is a sentence of «Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France» by Alfred John Church, How Huon Returned, His Errand Fulfilled. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Gerames), 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:pg75339:42:5
# text = So they took the ship, the pagans not being able to hinder them.
1	So	so	ADV	RB	_	3	advmod	_	_
2	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
3	took	take	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	ship	ship	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	8	punct	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	pagans	pagan	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	parataxis	_	_
9	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	11	advmod	_	_
10	being	be	AUX	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	11	cop	_	_
11	able	able	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	advcl	_	_
12	to	to	PART	TO	_	13	mark	_	_
13	hinder	hinder	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	11	xcomp	_	_
14	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	13	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **take** | past | Gerames *= gerame* | the ship |  |  |  | the pagans *parataxis* | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent ship=Theme |
| 2 | **not** **is** | gerund | Gerames *= gerame* *not said here* |  |  |  |  | able *property* | tree rules |
| 3 | **hinder** | to-infinitive | Gerames *= gerame* *not said here* | Gerames *= gerame* |  |  |  |  | vn discourage-64.5-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Causer they=Eventuality |

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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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