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title: But the other masons grew jealous of him, because that he was much b… — Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of F… · tree and pragmatics
description: But the other masons grew jealous of him, because that he was much better and stronger than they. Who acts: other masons, Reynaud. A sentence of «Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France» by Alfred John Church, Of Reynaud's End, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every claus
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# Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France, Of Reynaud's End, sentence 44

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But the other masons grew jealous of him, because that he was much better and stronger than they.

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**Who acts:** other masons, Reynaud · **What happens:** grow, be

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This is a sentence of «Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France» by Alfred John Church, Of Reynaud's End. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (other masons, 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:pg75339:13:44
# text = But the other masons grew jealous of him, because that he was much better and stronger than they.
1	But	but	CCONJ	CC	_	5	cc	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
3	other	other	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	amod	_	_
4	masons	mason	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	nsubj	_	_
5	grew	grow	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
6	jealous	jealous	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	xcomp	_	_
7	of	of	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
8	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	6	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
10	because	because	SCONJ	IN	_	15	mark	_	_
11	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	10	fixed	_	_
12	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	15	nsubj	_	_
13	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	15	cop	_	_
14	much	much	ADV	RB	_	15	advmod	_	_
15	better	good	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	5	conj	_	_
16	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	17	cc	_	_
17	stronger	strong	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	15	conj	_	_
18	than	than	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
19	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	15	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **grow** | past | the other masons |  |  |  |  | jealous *property* | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **is** | past | Reynaud |  |  |  |  | than pennies *= penny*; good *property* | tree rules |
| 3 | **be** |  | Reynaud *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | 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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