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title: The death of the great King is only mentioned as imminent in the rom… — Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of F… · tree and pragmatics
description: The death of the great King is only mentioned as imminent in the romance which I have followed; I have added an abridged account of it from the contemporary biography written by Eginhard. Who acts: I, great King. A sentence of «Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France» by Alfred John Ch
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# Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France, Opening, sentence 34

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The death of the great King is only mentioned as imminent in the romance which I have followed; I have added an abridged account of it from the contemporary biography written by Eginhard.

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**Who acts:** I, great King · **What happens:** mention, follow, add, abridge, write, die · **To what, where:** death, romance, abridged account, contemporary biography

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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 (I, great King), 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:pg75339:1:34
# text = The death of the great King is only mentioned as imminent in the romance which I have followed; I have added an abridged account of it from the contemporary biography written by Eginhard.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	death	death	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	nsubj:pass	_	_
3	of	of	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
5	great	great	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	amod	_	_
6	King	King	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	nmod	_	_
7	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	9	aux:pass	_	_
8	only	only	ADV	RB	_	9	advmod	_	_
9	mentioned	mention	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
10	as	as	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
11	imminent	imminent	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	9	xcomp	_	_
12	in	in	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
13	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
14	romance	romance	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	obl	_	_
15	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	18	nsubj:pass	_	_
16	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	18	nsubj:pass	_	_
17	have	have	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	18	aux	_	_
18	followed	follow	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	14	acl:relcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	22	punct	_	_
20	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	22	nsubj	_	_
21	have	have	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	22	aux	_	_
22	added	add	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	9	conj	_	_
23	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	25	det	_	_
24	abridged	abridge	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	25	amod	_	_
25	account	account	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	obj	_	_
26	of	of	ADP	IN	_	27	case	_	_
27	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	25	nmod	_	_
28	from	from	ADP	IN	_	31	case	_	_
29	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	31	det	_	_
30	contemporary	contemporary	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	31	amod	_	_
31	biography	biography	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	obl	_	_
32	written	write	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	31	acl	_	_
33	by	by	ADP	IN	_	34	case	_	_
34	Eginhard	Eginhard	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	32	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
35	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	9	punct	_	_
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## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **mention** *speech: other* | present · passive |  | the death of the great King |  |  |  | imminent *property* | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: subject=Topic |
| 2 | **follow** | present · perfect · passive |  | the romance |  |  |  | I *nsubj:pass* | vn chase-51.6 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme |
| 3 | **add** *speech: assert* | present · perfect | I | a abridged account of death |  | the contemporary biography |  |  | vn mix-22.1-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent account=Patient |
| 4 | **abridge** | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn other\_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient |
| 5 | **write** | participle |  | the contemporary biography *not said here* |  |  |  | by Eginhard | vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 6 | **die** |  | the great King |  |  |  |  |  | nom death «event intransitive»: of=agent |
| 7 | **account** |  |  | death |  |  |  |  | nom account «communication transitive»: of=patient |

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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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