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title: The real Charlemagne was a very great personality, one that impresse… — Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of F… · tree and pragmatics
description: The real Charlemagne was a very great personality, one that impressed his age as deeply as any man has ever done; in these stories he often appears petty, capricious, and obstinate. Who acts: real Charlemagne, great personality, man, CHARLEMAGNE. A sentence of «Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve 
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# Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France, Opening, sentence 16

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The real Charlemagne was a very great personality, one that impressed his age as deeply as any man has ever done; in these stories he often appears petty, capricious, and obstinate.

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**Who acts:** real Charlemagne, great personality, man, CHARLEMAGNE · **What happens:** be, impress, do, appear · **To what, where:** great personality, age, petty, stories

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This is a sentence of «Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France» by Alfred John Church, Opening. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (real Charlemagne, great personality, man, CHARLEMAGNE), 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:pg75339:1:16
# text = The real Charlemagne was a very great personality, one that impressed his age as deeply as any man has ever done; in these stories he often appears petty, capricious, and obstinate.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	real	real	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	Charlemagne	Charlemagne	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	8	nsubj	_	_
4	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	8	cop	_	_
5	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
6	very	very	ADV	RB	_	7	advmod	_	_
7	great	great	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	amod	_	_
8	personality	personality	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
10	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	8	appos	_	_
11	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	12	nsubj	_	_
12	impressed	impress	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	8	acl:relcl	_	_
13	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	14	nmod:poss	_	_
14	age	age	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	obj	_	_
15	as	as	ADV	RB	_	16	advmod	_	_
16	deeply	deeply	ADV	RB	_	12	advmod	_	_
17	as	as	SCONJ	IN	_	22	mark	_	_
18	any	any	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	19	det	_	_
19	man	man	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	nsubj	_	_
20	has	have	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	22	aux	_	_
21	ever	ever	ADV	RB	PronType=Ind	22	advmod	_	_
22	done	do	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	12	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	29	punct	_	_
24	in	in	ADP	IN	_	26	case	_	_
25	these	this	DET	DT	Number=Plur|PronType=Dem	26	det	_	_
26	stories	story	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	29	obl	_	_
27	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	29	nsubj	_	_
28	often	often	ADV	RB	_	29	advmod	_	_
29	appears	appear	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	8	parataxis	_	_
30	petty	petty	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	29	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
31	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	32	punct	_	_
32	capricious	capricious	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	30	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
33	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	35	punct	_	_
34	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	35	cc	_	_
35	obstinate	obstinate	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	29	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
36	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	8	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** | past | the real Charlemagne | a great personality |  |  |  | one *appos* | tree rules |
| 2 | **impress** | past | a great personality | CHARLEMAGNE's age |  |  |  | deeply *property* | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus age=Experiencer |
| 3 | **do** | present · perfect | any man |  |  |  | ever |  | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 4 | **appear** | present | CHARLEMAGNE | petty |  | this stories |  | often *property* | vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location petty=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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