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title: This done, he made a great vow that he would abide in that place for… — Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of F… · tree and pragmatics
description: This done, he made a great vow that he would abide in that place for the rest of his life, eating only such wild things as were in the wood. Who acts: 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
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# Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France, How Mawgis Became a Hermit, sentence 69

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This done, he made a great vow that he would abide in that place for the rest of his life, eating only such wild things as were in the wood.

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**Who acts:** Reynaud · **What happens:** do, make, abide, eat, be · **To what, where:** This, great vow, place, such wild things

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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 (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:pg75339:10:69
# text = This done, he made a great vow that he would abide in that place for the rest of his life, eating only such wild things as were in the wood.
1	This	this	PRON	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	2	nsubj:pass	_	_
2	done	do	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	5	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	2	punct	_	_
4	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	5	nsubj	_	_
5	made	make	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
6	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
7	great	great	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	amod	_	_
8	vow	vow	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obj	_	_
9	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	12	mark	_	_
10	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	12	nsubj	_	_
11	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	12	aux	_	_
12	abide	abide	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	8	acl	_	_
13	in	in	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
14	that	that	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	15	det	_	_
15	place	place	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	obl	_	_
16	for	for	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
17	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
18	rest	rest	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	obl	_	_
19	of	of	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
20	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	21	nmod:poss	_	_
21	life	life	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	23	punct	_	_
23	eating	eat	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	5	advcl	_	_
24	only	only	ADV	RB	_	27	advmod	_	_
25	such	such	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	27	amod	_	_
26	wild	wild	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	27	amod	_	_
27	things	thing	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	23	obj	_	_
28	as	as	ADP	IN	_	32	case	_	_
29	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	32	cop	_	_
30	in	in	ADP	IN	_	32	case	_	_
31	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	32	det	_	_
32	wood	wood	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
33	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **do** | participle · passive |  | This |  |  |  |  | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Eventuality |
| 2 | **make** | past | Reynaud | a great vow |  |  |  |  | vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent vow=Product |
| 3 | **abide** | would | Reynaud | a great vow *not said here* |  | that place |  | for the rest of Reynaud's life | tree rules |
| 4 | **eat** | gerund | Reynaud *not said here* | such wild things |  |  |  |  | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent thing=Patient |
| 5 | **is** | past |  |  |  |  |  | as the wood | tree rules |

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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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