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# Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France, Of What Befell At Montalban, sentence 53

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In the castle the famine was so sore that Reynaud and his people could scarcely keep life in them.

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**Who acts:** famine, Reynaud · **What happens:** be, keep · **To what, where:** castle, life

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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 (famine, 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:pg75339:11:53
# text = In the castle the famine was so sore that Reynaud and his people could scarcely keep life in them.
1	In	in	ADP	IN	_	3	case	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	castle	castle	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obl	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	famine	famine	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	nsubj	_	_
6	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	8	cop	_	_
7	so	so	ADV	RB	_	8	advmod	_	_
8	sore	sore	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
9	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	16	mark	_	_
10	Reynaud	Reynaud	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	16	nsubj	_	_
11	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	13	cc	_	_
12	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	13	nmod:poss	_	_
13	people	people	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	10	conj	_	_
14	could	could	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	16	aux	_	_
15	scarcely	scarcely	ADV	RB	_	16	advmod	_	_
16	keep	keep	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	8	advcl	_	_
17	life	life	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	obj	_	_
18	in	in	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
19	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	16	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	8	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | past | the famine |  |  | the castle |  | sore *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **keep** | could | Reynaud and Reynaud's people | life |  |  |  | in lives *= life*; scarcely *property* | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent life=Theme in they=Location |

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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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