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description: This they did with great zeal, bringing engines wherewith to cast stones and darts against it, and setting ladders against the walls by which they climbed up to the highest parts. Who acts: This, Barons. A sentence of «Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France» by Alfred John Church, Of 
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# Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France, Of What Befell At Montalban, sentence 45

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This they did with great zeal, bringing engines wherewith to cast stones and darts against it, and setting ladders against the walls by which they climbed up to the highest parts.

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**Who acts:** This, Barons · **What happens:** do, bring, cast, set, climb up · **To what, where:** engines, stones, zeal, ladders, walls

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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 (This, Barons), 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:pg75339:11:45
# text = This they did with great zeal, bringing engines wherewith to cast stones and darts against it, and setting ladders against the walls by which they climbed up to the highest parts.
1	This	this	PRON	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	3	nsubj	_	_
2	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
3	did	do	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	with	with	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
5	great	great	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	amod	_	_
6	zeal	zeal	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	8	punct	_	_
8	bringing	bring	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	3	advcl	_	_
9	engines	engine	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	8	obj	_	_
10	wherewith	wherewith	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	12	advmod	_	_
11	to	to	PART	TO	_	12	mark	_	_
12	cast	cast	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	8	xcomp	_	_
13	stones	stone	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	12	obj	_	_
14	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	15	cc	_	_
15	darts	dart	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	13	conj	_	_
16	against	against	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
17	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	12	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	20	punct	_	_
19	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	20	cc	_	_
20	setting	set	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	8	conj	_	_
21	ladders	ladder	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	20	obj	_	_
22	against	against	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	_
23	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	24	det	_	_
24	walls	wall	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	20	obl	_	_
25	by	by	ADP	IN	_	26	case	_	_
26	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	28	obl	_	_
27	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	28	nsubj	_	_
28	climbed	climb	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	24	acl:relcl	_	_
29	up	up	ADP	RP	_	28	compound:prt	_	_
30	to	to	ADP	IN	_	33	case	_	_
31	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	33	det	_	_
32	highest	high	ADJ	JJS	Degree=Sup	33	amod	_	_
33	parts	part	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	28	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
34	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **do** | past | This |  |  |  |  | with great zeal; Barons *= baron* *nsubj* | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **bring** | gerund | This *not said here* | engines |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **cast** | to-infinitive | This *not said here* | stones and darts |  | zeal |  | wherewith *property* | vn throw-17.1 «NP V NP PP.destinations»: agent=Agent stone=Theme against it=Destination |
| 4 | **set** | gerund | This *not said here* | ladders |  | the walls |  |  | vn put-9.1-2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent ladder=Theme against wall=Destination |
| 5 | **climb up** | past | Barons *= baron* |  |  |  |  | by the walls; to the highest parts *result* | vn calibratable\_cos-45.6.1-1 «NP.patient V PP.extent PP.source PP.goal»: agent=Patient by which=Extent to part=Result |

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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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