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title: The Charlemagne romances, as translated by Lord Berners and William… — Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of F… · tree and pragmatics
description: The Charlemagne romances, as translated by Lord Berners and William Caxton, occupy twelve volumes in the Extra Series of the Early English Text Society. Who acts: Charlemagne romances. A sentence of «Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France» by Alfred John Church, Opening, with its depe
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# Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France, Opening, sentence 24

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The Charlemagne romances, as translated by Lord Berners and William Caxton, occupy twelve volumes in the Extra Series of the Early English Text Society.

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**Who acts:** Charlemagne romances · **What happens:** translate, occupy · **To what, where:** Charlemagne romances, twelve volumes, Extra Series

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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 (Charlemagne romances), 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:pg75339:1:24
# text = The Charlemagne romances, as translated by Lord Berners and William Caxton, occupy twelve volumes in the Extra Series of the Early English Text Society.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	Charlemagne	Charlemagne	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	compound	_	_
3	romances	romance	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	14	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	6	punct	_	_
5	as	as	SCONJ	IN	_	6	mark	_	_
6	translated	translate	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	3	acl	_	_
7	by	by	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
8	Lord	Lord	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	6	obl	_	_
9	Berners	Berners	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	8	flat	_	_
10	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	11	cc	_	_
11	William	William	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	8	conj	_	_
12	Caxton	Caxton	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	11	flat	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	3	punct	_	_
14	occupy	occupy	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
15	twelve	twelve	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	16	nummod	_	_
16	volumes	volume	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	14	obj	_	_
17	in	in	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
18	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	20	det	_	_
19	Extra	Extra	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	20	compound	_	_
20	Series	Series	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	14	obl	_	_
21	of	of	ADP	IN	_	26	case	_	_
22	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	26	det	_	_
23	Early	early	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	26	amod	_	_
24	English	English	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	25	compound	_	_
25	Text	Text	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	26	compound	_	_
26	Society	Society	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	20	nmod	_	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 | **translate** | participle |  | the Charlemagne romances *not said here* |  |  |  | by Lord and William | vn turn-26.6.1 «NP V»: agent=Patient |
| 2 | **occupy** | present | the Charlemagne romances | twelve volumes |  | the Extra Series of the Early Text Society |  |  | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus volume=Experiencer |

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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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