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title: Now the Duke sat in his chamber playing chess with Yonnet, that was… — Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of F… · tree and pragmatics
description: Now the Duke sat in his chamber playing chess with Yonnet, that was son to Reynaud. Who acts: Duke. 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 every clause.
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# Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France, How Peace Was Made, sentence 79

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Now the Duke sat in his chamber playing chess with Yonnet, that was son to Reynaud.

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**Who acts:** Duke · **What happens:** sit, play, be · **To what, where:** chamber, chess, son, Reynaud

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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 (Duke), 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:pg75339:12:79
# text = Now the Duke sat in his chamber playing chess with Yonnet, that was son to Reynaud.
1	Now	now	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	4	advmod	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	Duke	Duke	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
4	sat	sit	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	in	in	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
6	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	7	nmod:poss	_	_
7	chamber	chamber	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	_
8	playing	play	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	4	advcl	_	_
9	chess	chess	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obj	_	_
10	with	with	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
11	Yonnet	Yonnet	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	8	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
13	that	that	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	15	det	_	_
14	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	15	cop	_	_
15	son	son	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	appos	_	_
16	to	to	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
17	Reynaud	Reynaud	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	15	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **sit** | past | the Duke |  |  | Duke's chamber | now |  | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent in chamber=Location |
| 2 | **play** | gerund | the Duke *not said here* | chess |  |  |  | with Yonnet | vn play-114.2-1 «NP V NP PP.co-agent»: agent=Agent chess=Theme with yonnet=Co-Agent |
| 3 | **is a** | past |  | that son | Reynaud |  |  |  | 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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