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title: Supper being ended, Reynaud said to Mawgis, "Cousin, I pray you to w… — Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of F… · tree and pragmatics
description: Supper being ended, Reynaud said to Mawgis, "Cousin, I pray you to watch this night, for on this hangs the lives of us all." " Who acts: Supper, Reynaud. A sentence of «Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France» by Alfred John Church, How Mawgis Became a Hermit, with its dependency tree 
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# Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France, How Mawgis Became a Hermit, sentence 54

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Supper being ended, Reynaud said to Mawgis, "Cousin, I pray you to watch this night, for on this hangs the lives of us all." "

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**Who acts:** Supper, Reynaud · **What happens:** be, say, pray, watch, hang · **To what, where:** Mawgis, lives, this · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of «Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France» by Alfred John Church, How Mawgis Became a Hermit. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Supper, Reynaud), 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:pg75339:10:54
# text = Supper being ended, Reynaud said to Mawgis, "Cousin, I pray you to watch this night, for on this hangs the lives of us all." "
1	Supper	supper	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
2	being	be	AUX	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	3	cop	_	_
3	ended	ended	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	6	punct	_	_
5	Reynaud	Reynaud	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	6	nsubj	_	_
6	said	say	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	_
7	to	to	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
8	Mawgis	Mawgis	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	6	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
10	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	11	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	Cousin	cousin	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	appos	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
13	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	14	nsubj	_	_
14	pray	pray	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	3	parataxis	_	_
15	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Person=2|PronType=Prs	14	obj	_	_
16	to	to	PART	TO	_	17	mark	_	_
17	watch	watch	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	14	xcomp	_	_
18	this	this	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	19	det	_	_
19	night	night	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	obl:unmarked	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	24	punct	_	_
21	for	for	SCONJ	IN	_	24	mark	_	_
22	on	on	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
23	this	this	PRON	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	24	obl	_	_
24	hangs	hang	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	_
25	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	26	det	_	_
26	lives	life	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	24	obj	_	_
27	of	of	ADP	IN	_	28	case	_	_
28	us	we	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs	26	nmod	_	_
29	all	all	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	28	nmod:unmarked	_	SpaceAfter=No
30	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	24	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
31	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	24	punct	_	_
32	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	24	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | gerund | Supper |  |  |  |  | ended *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **say** *speech: assert* | past | Reynaud |  | Mawgis |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V PP.recipient S-Quote»: agent=Agent to mawgis=Recipient |
| 3 | **pray** *in a quote* | present | Reynaud | Mawgis |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 4 | **watch** *in a quote* | to-infinitive | Reynaud *not said here* |  |  |  | night |  | vn search-35.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent |
| 5 | **hang** *in a quote* | present | Supper *not said here* | the lives of us |  | this |  |  | vn put\_spatial-9.2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent life=Theme on this=Destination |

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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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