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title: Reynaud rode to Montfaucon, and there he found Roland waiting for him. — Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of F… · tree and pragmatics
description: Reynaud rode to Montfaucon, and there he found Roland waiting for him. Who acts: Reynaud, Roland. 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 and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France, How Mawgis Became a Hermit, sentence 8

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Reynaud rode to Montfaucon, and there he found Roland waiting for him.

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**Who acts:** Reynaud, Roland · **What happens:** ride, find, wait · **To what, where:** Montfaucon, Roland

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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, Roland), 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:pg75339:10:8
# text = Reynaud rode to Montfaucon, and there he found Roland waiting for him.
1	Reynaud	Reynaud	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	nsubj	_	_
2	rode	ride	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	to	to	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
4	Montfaucon	Montfaucon	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	9	punct	_	_
6	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	9	cc	_	_
7	there	there	PRON	EX	PronType=Dem	9	expl	_	_
8	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	9	nsubj	_	_
9	found	find	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	2	conj	_	_
10	Roland	Roland	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	9	obj	_	_
11	waiting	wait	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	9	xcomp	_	_
12	for	for	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
13	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	11	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **ride** | past | Reynaud |  |  | Montfaucon |  |  | vn nonvehicle-51.4.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent to montfaucon=Trajectory |
| 2 | **find** | past | Reynaud | Roland |  | there |  |  | vn declare-29.4-1-1 «NP V NP ADJ»: agent=Agent roland=Attribute clause=Theme |
| 3 | **wait** | gerund | Roland *not said here* |  |  |  |  | for Reynaud | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=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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