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title: So this Ripus, having put a halter about Richard's neck, led him to… — Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of F… · tree and pragmatics
description: So this Ripus, having put a halter about Richard's neck, led him to the gallows which had been set up outside the wood. Who acts: Ripus. A sentence of «Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France» by Alfred John Church, Of the Craft of Mawgis, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of
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# Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France, Of the Craft of Mawgis, sentence 121

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So this Ripus, having put a halter about Richard's neck, led him to the gallows which had been set up outside the wood.

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**Who acts:** Ripus · **What happens:** put, lead, set up · **To what, where:** halter, Richard, gallows, wood

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This is a sentence of «Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France» by Alfred John Church, Of the Craft of Mawgis. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Ripus), 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:pg75339:8:121
# text = So this Ripus, having put a halter about Richard's neck, led him to the gallows which had been set up outside the wood.
1	So	so	ADV	RB	_	14	advmod	_	_
2	this	this	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	3	det	_	_
3	Ripus	Ripus	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	14	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	6	punct	_	_
5	having	have	AUX	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	6	aux	_	_
6	put	put	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	3	acl	_	_
7	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	halter	halter	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obj	_	_
9	about	about	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
10	Richard	Richard	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	12	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	's	's	PART	POS	_	10	case	_	_
12	neck	neck	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	3	punct	_	_
14	led	lead	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
15	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	14	obj	_	_
16	to	to	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
17	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
18	gallows	gallows	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	14	obl	_	_
19	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	22	nsubj:pass	_	_
20	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	22	aux	_	_
21	been	be	AUX	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	22	aux:pass	_	_
22	set	set	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	18	acl:relcl	_	_
23	up	up	ADP	RP	_	22	compound:prt	_	_
24	outside	outside	ADP	IN	_	26	case	_	_
25	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	26	det	_	_
26	wood	wood	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	14	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **put** | gerund · perfect | this Ripus *not said here* | a halter |  |  |  | about Richard's neck | vn put-9.1-2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent halter=Theme about neck=Destination |
| 2 | **lead** | past | this Ripus | Richard |  | the gallows |  |  | vn accompany-51.7 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent he=Theme to gallows=Destination |
| 3 | **set up** | past · perfect · passive |  | the gallows |  | the wood |  |  | vn put-9.1-2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: subject=Theme outside wood=Destination |

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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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