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title: But after certain days, the provisions being all consumed, the famin… — Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of F… · tree and pragmatics
description: But after certain days, the provisions being all consumed, the famine was as sore as it had been at the first. Who acts: famine. 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 pragmatics of ev
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# Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France, Of What Befell At Montalban, sentence 99

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But after certain days, the provisions being all consumed, the famine was as sore as it had been at the first.

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**Who acts:** famine · **What happens:** consume, be · **To what, where:** provisions

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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), 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:pg75339:11:99
# text = But after certain days, the provisions being all consumed, the famine was as sore as it had been at the first.
1	But	but	CCONJ	CC	_	10	cc	_	_
2	after	after	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
3	certain	certain	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	amod	_	_
4	days	day	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	10	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	4	punct	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	provisions	provision	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	10	nsubj:pass	_	_
8	being	be	AUX	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	10	aux:pass	_	_
9	all	all	ADV	RB	_	10	advmod	_	_
10	consumed	consume	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
12	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
13	famine	famine	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	nsubj	_	_
14	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	16	cop	_	_
15	as	as	ADV	RB	_	16	advmod	_	_
16	sore	sore	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	10	parataxis	_	_
17	as	as	SCONJ	IN	_	23	mark	_	_
18	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	23	nsubj	_	_
19	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	23	aux	_	_
20	been	be	AUX	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	23	cop	_	_
21	at	at	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
22	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	23	det	_	_
23	first	first	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos|NumForm=Word|NumType=Ord	16	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	10	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **consume** | gerund · passive |  | the provisions |  |  | day | all *property* | vn consume-66 «NP V NP»: subject=Asset |
| 2 | **is** | past | the famine |  |  |  |  | sore *property* | tree rules |
| 3 | **is** | past · perfect | famine |  |  |  |  | first *property* | 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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