Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France, The Battle, sentence 104

The first to charge from out of the ranks of the heathen was Chimborin, the same that had given to Ganelon the helmet with the great carbuncle on the vizor.

What happens: charge, be, give · To what, where: ranks, Chimborin, that, Ganelon

This is a sentence of «Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France» by Alfred John Church, The Battle. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

Mova's own parse. This tree may be wrong.

The tree

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 first	det
2	first	first	ADJ	Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord	root	root
3	to	to	PART	_	4 charge	mark
4	charge	charge	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 first	acl
5	from	from	ADP	_	9 ranks	case
6	out	out	ADP	_	9 ranks	case
7	of	of	ADP	_	9 ranks	case
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 ranks	det
9	ranks	rank	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 charge	obl
10	of	of	ADP	_	12 heathen	case
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 heathen	det
12	heathen	heathen	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 Chimborin	obl
13	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	14 Chimborin	cop
14	Chimborin	Chimborin	PROPN	Number=Sing	9 ranks	nmod
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 same	punct
16	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	17 same	det
17	same	same	ADJ	Degree=Pos	14 Chimborin	conj
18	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	20 given	nsubj:pass
19	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	20 given	aux
20	given	give	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	9 ranks	conj
21	to	to	ADP	_	22 Ganelon	case
22	Ganelon	Ganelon	PROPN	Number=Sing	20 given	obl
23	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	24 helmet	det
24	helmet	helmet	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 given	obj
25	with	with	ADP	_	28 carbuncle	case
26	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	28 carbuncle	det
27	great	great	ADJ	Degree=Pos	28 carbuncle	amod
28	carbuncle	carbuncle	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 helmet	nmod
29	on	on	ADP	_	31 vizor	case
30	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	31 vizor	det
31	vizor	vizor	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 carbuncle	nmod
32	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 first	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	what, whom	to whom	where	other	roles by
1	charge	to-infinitive			the ranks		vn run-51.3.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme from rank=Trajectory
2	is a	past	Chimborin			of the heathen	tree rules
3	be						tree rules
4	give	past · perfect · passive	that	Ganelon		the helmet obj	vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: subject=Recipient helmet=Theme

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.

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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🌲 Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France, The Battle, sentence 104

The tree

Pragmatics

Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France, The Battle, sentence 104