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title: There was great trouble and wondering when the brethren knew that Ma… — Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of F… · tree and pragmatics
description: There was great trouble and wondering when the brethren knew that Mawgis was not in Montalban. Who acts: great trouble, brethren, Mawgis. A sentence of «Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France» by Alfred John Church, Of What Befell At Montalban, with its dependency tree and the pragmat
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# Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France, Of What Befell At Montalban, sentence 1

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There was great trouble and wondering when the brethren knew that Mawgis was not in Montalban.

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**Who acts:** great trouble, brethren, Mawgis · **What happens:** be, wonder, know, not be · **To what, where:** Montalban · **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, Of What Befell At Montalban. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (great trouble, brethren, Mawgis), 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:pg75339:11:1
# text = There was great trouble and wondering when the brethren knew that Mawgis was not in Montalban.
1	There	there	PRON	EX	PronType=Dem	2	expl	_	_
2	was	be	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	great	great	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	amod	_	_
4	trouble	trouble	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	nsubj	_	_
5	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	6	cc	_	_
6	wondering	wonder	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	4	conj	_	_
7	when	when	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	10	advmod	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
9	brethren	brethren	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	nsubj	_	_
10	knew	know	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	6	ccomp	_	_
11	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	16	mark	_	_
12	Mawgis	Mawgis	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	16	nsubj	_	_
13	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	16	cop	_	_
14	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	16	advmod	_	_
15	in	in	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
16	Montalban	Montalban	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	10	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **be** | past | great trouble |  |  | there |  |  | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **wonder** *speech: ask* | gerund | great trouble *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn care-88.1-1 «NP V what S»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus |
| 3 | **know** | past | the brethren |  |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer |
| 4 | **not** **is** | past | Mawgis |  |  | Montalban |  |  | 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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