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title: Thereupon, King John, holding that he could not honour too greatly s… — Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of F… · tree and pragmatics
description: Thereupon, King John, holding that he could not honour too greatly so valiant a knight, yielded to him a fair hill whereon was a castle, and gave him also his sister in marriage. Who acts: King, John, castle. A sentence of «Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France» by Alfred John Church
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# Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France, The Coming of Roland, sentence 7

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Thereupon, King John, holding that he could not honour too greatly so valiant a knight, yielded to him a fair hill whereon was a castle, and gave him also his sister in marriage.

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**Who acts:** King, John, castle · **What happens:** hold, not honour, yield, be, give · **To what, where:** valiant, King, castle, sister

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This is a sentence of «Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France» by Alfred John Church, The Coming of Roland. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (King, John, castle), 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:pg75339:6:7
# text = Thereupon, King John, holding that he could not honour too greatly so valiant a knight, yielded to him a fair hill whereon was a castle, and gave him also his sister in marriage.
1	Thereupon	thereupon	ADV	RB	_	4	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	1	punct	_	_
3	King	King	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	nmod:desc	_	_
4	John	John	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	28	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	4	punct	_	_
6	holding	hold	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	28	csubj	_	_
7	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	11	mark	_	_
8	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	11	nsubj	_	_
9	could	could	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	11	aux	_	_
10	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	11	advmod	_	_
11	honour	honour	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	15	advcl	_	_
12	too	too	ADV	RB	_	11	advmod	_	_
13	greatly	greatly	ADV	RB	_	15	advmod	_	_
14	so	so	ADV	RB	_	15	advmod	_	_
15	valiant	valiant	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	obj	_	_
16	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
17	knight	knight	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	19	punct	_	_
19	yielded	yield	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	15	conj	_	_
20	to	to	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
21	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	19	obl	_	_
22	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	24	det	_	_
23	fair	fair	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	24	amod	_	_
24	hill	hill	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obj	_	_
25	whereon	whereon	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	6	advmod	_	_
26	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	28	cop	_	_
27	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	28	det	_	_
28	castle	castle	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
29	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	31	punct	_	_
30	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	31	cc	_	_
31	gave	give	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	28	acl:relcl	_	_
32	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	31	iobj	_	_
33	also	also	ADV	RB	_	35	advmod	_	_
34	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	35	nmod:poss	_	_
35	sister	sister	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	31	obl	_	_
36	in	in	ADP	IN	_	37	case	_	_
37	marriage	marriage	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	35	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
38	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	28	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **hold** | gerund |  | valiant  a knight |  |  |  | a fair hill *obj*; whereon *property* | vn conjecture-29.5 «NP V NP to be NP»: agent=Agent valiant=Theme hill=Eventuality |
| 2 | **not** **honour** | could | King |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **yield** | participle |  |  | King |  |  |  | vn acquiesce-95.1-1 «NP V PP.pivot»: agent=Agent to he=Pivot |
| 4 | **is a** | past | John  King | a castle |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 5 | **give** | past | a castle *not said here* | King's sister in marriage | King |  |  |  | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Theme |

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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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