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title: But when many days had gone by, and there came no messenger from the… — Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of F… · tree and pragmatics
description: But when many days had gone by, and there came no messenger from the town, he began to doubt within himself. Who acts: many days, messenger. A sentence of «Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France» by Alfred John Church, How Peace Was Made, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of
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# Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France, How Peace Was Made, sentence 55

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But when many days had gone by, and there came no messenger from the town, he began to doubt within himself.

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**Who acts:** many days, messenger · **What happens:** go by, come, begin, doubt · **To what, where:** town

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This is a sentence of «Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France» by Alfred John Church, How Peace Was Made. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (many days, messenger), 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:pg75339:12:55
# text = But when many days had gone by, and there came no messenger from the town, he began to doubt within himself.
1	But	but	CCONJ	CC	_	11	cc	_	_
2	when	when	SCONJ	WRB	_	6	mark	_	_
3	many	many	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	amod	_	_
4	days	day	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	nsubj	_	_
5	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	6	aux	_	_
6	gone	go	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	11	advcl	_	_
7	by	by	ADP	IN	_	6	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
9	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	11	cc	_	_
10	there	there	PRON	EX	PronType=Dem	11	expl	_	_
11	came	come	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
12	no	no	DET	DT	PronType=Neg	13	det	_	_
13	messenger	messenger	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	nsubj	_	_
14	from	from	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
15	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
16	town	town	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	19	punct	_	_
18	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	19	nsubj	_	_
19	began	begin	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	11	conj	_	_
20	to	to	PART	TO	_	21	mark	_	_
21	doubt	doubt	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	19	xcomp	_	_
22	within	within	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
23	himself	himself	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs|Reflex=Yes	21	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	11	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **go by** | past · perfect | many days |  |  |  |  |  | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **come** | past | no messenger |  |  | the town; there |  |  | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme from town=Initial\_Location |
| 3 | **begin** | past | messenger |  |  |  |  |  | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S\_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality |
| 4 | **doubt** | to-infinitive | messenger *not said here* |  |  |  |  | within messenger | vn judgment-33.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |

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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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