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title: So the false pilgrim gave him his staff to kiss for a token. — Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of F… · tree and pragmatics
description: So the false pilgrim gave him his staff to kiss for a token. Who acts: false pilgrim. 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 every clause.
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# Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France, Of the Craft of Mawgis, sentence 92

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So the false pilgrim gave him his staff to kiss for a token.

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**Who acts:** false pilgrim · **What happens:** give, kiss · **To what, where:** staff

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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 (false pilgrim), 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:pg75339:8:92
# text = So the false pilgrim gave him his staff to kiss for a token.
1	So	so	ADV	RB	_	5	advmod	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
3	false	false	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	amod	_	_
4	pilgrim	pilgrim	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	_
5	gave	give	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
6	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	5	iobj	_	_
7	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	8	nmod:poss	_	_
8	staff	staff	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	iobj	_	_
9	to	to	PART	TO	_	10	mark	_	_
10	kiss	kiss	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	5	advcl	_	_
11	for	for	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
12	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
13	token	token	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **give** | past | the false pilgrim |  | King's staff |  |  | King *iobj* | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent he=Recipient staff=Theme |
| 2 | **kiss** | to-infinitive | the false pilgrim *not said here* |  |  |  |  | for a token | vn marry-36.2 «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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