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title: When the giant and Huon came together in the field, the giant asked… — Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of F… · tree and pragmatics
description: When the giant and Huon came together in the field, the giant asked this question, "What is your kinship to the Admiral that you are willing to fight for him?" Who acts: giant Huon, giant, question, you. A sentence of «Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France» by Alfred John Church, How
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# Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France, How Huon Returned, His Errand Fulfilled, sentence 74

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When the giant and Huon came together in the field, the giant asked this question, "What is your kinship to the Admiral that you are willing to fight for him?"

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**Who acts:** giant Huon, giant, question, you · **What happens:** come together, ask, be, fight · **To what, where:** field, question, kinship · **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 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 (giant Huon, giant, question, you), 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:pg75339:42:74
# text = When the giant and Huon came together in the field, the giant asked this question, "What is your kinship to the Admiral that you are willing to fight for him?"
1	When	when	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	6	advmod	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
3	giant	giant	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	amod	_	_
4	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	5	cc	_	_
5	Huon	Huon	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	6	nsubj	_	_
6	came	come	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	14	advcl	_	_
7	together	together	ADV	RB	_	6	advmod	_	_
8	in	in	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
9	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
10	field	field	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	6	punct	_	_
12	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
13	giant	giant	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	nsubj	_	_
14	asked	ask	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
15	this	this	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	16	det	_	_
16	question	question	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	22	punct	_	_
18	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	22	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	What	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	22	nsubj	_	_
20	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	22	cop	_	_
21	your	your	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	22	nmod:poss	_	_
22	kinship	kinship	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	appos	_	_
23	to	to	ADP	IN	_	25	case	_	_
24	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	25	det	_	_
25	Admiral	admiral	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	nmod	_	_
26	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	29	mark	_	_
27	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	29	nsubj	_	_
28	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	29	cop	_	_
29	willing	willing	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	22	parataxis	_	_
30	to	to	PART	TO	_	31	mark	_	_
31	fight	fight	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	29	xcomp	_	_
32	for	for	ADP	IN	_	33	case	_	_
33	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	31	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
34	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	29	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
35	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	29	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **come together** | past | the giant Huon |  |  | the field |  | together *property* | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in field=Location |
| 2 | **ask** *speech: ask* | past | the giant | this question |  |  |  |  | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent question=Recipient |
| 3 | **is a** *in a quote* | present | this question | your kinship |  |  |  | to the Admiral; your *nmod:poss* | tree rules |
| 4 | **is** *in a quote* | present | you |  |  |  |  | willing *property* | tree rules |
| 5 | **fight** *in a quote* | to-infinitive | you *not said here* |  |  |  |  | for Huon | vn battle-36.4-1 «NP V»: agent=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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