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description: After a while there came to be a great famine in Montalban, so that a man could not buy food for silver or gold, and not a few perished with hunger. Who acts: man. A sentence of «Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France» by Alfred John Church, Of What Befell At Montalban, with its depen
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# Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France, Of What Befell At Montalban, sentence 49

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After a while there came to be a great famine in Montalban, so that a man could not buy food for silver or gold, and not a few perished with hunger.

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**Who acts:** man · **What happens:** come, be, not buy, perish · **To what, where:** great famine, Montalban, food

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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 (man), 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:pg75339:11:49
# text = After a while there came to be a great famine in Montalban, so that a man could not buy food for silver or gold, and not a few perished with hunger.
1	After	after	ADP	IN	_	3	case	_	_
2	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	while	while	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obl	_	_
4	there	there	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	5	advmod	_	_
5	came	come	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
6	to	to	PART	TO	_	10	mark	_	_
7	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	10	cop	_	_
8	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
9	great	great	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	10	amod	_	_
10	famine	famine	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	advcl	_	_
11	in	in	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
12	Montalban	Montalban	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	10	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	20	punct	_	_
14	so	so	ADV	RB	_	20	advmod	_	_
15	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	20	mark	_	_
16	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
17	man	man	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	nsubj	_	_
18	could	could	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	20	aux	_	_
19	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	20	advmod	_	_
20	buy	buy	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	5	conj	_	_
21	food	food	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	obj	_	_
22	for	for	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
23	silver	silver	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	obl	_	_
24	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	25	cc	_	_
25	gold	gold	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	31	punct	_	_
27	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	31	cc	_	_
28	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	30	advmod	_	_
29	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	30	det	_	_
30	few	few	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	31	amod	_	_
31	perished	perish	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	5	parataxis	_	_
32	with	with	ADP	IN	_	33	case	_	_
33	hunger	hunger	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	31	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
34	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **come** | past |  |  |  | there | while |  | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **is a** | to-infinitive |  | a great famine |  | Montalban |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **not** **buy** | could | a man | food |  |  |  | for silver or gold | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP PP.beneficiary»: agent=Agent food=Theme for silver=Beneficiary |
| 4 | **perish** | participle |  |  |  |  |  | with hunger | vn break\_down-45.8 «NP V»: agent=Patient |

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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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