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title: When the host, returning to Paris, came to the river Meuse, a millst… — Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of F… · tree and pragmatics
description: When the host, returning to Paris, came to the river Meuse, a millstone was tied about his neck, and he was cast into the river. Who acts: host. 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 
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# Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France, Of Reynaud's End, sentence 49

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When the host, returning to Paris, came to the river Meuse, a millstone was tied about his neck, and he was cast into the river.

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**Who acts:** host · **What happens:** return, come, tie, cast · **To what, where:** Paris, river Meuse, millstone, host, river

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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 (host), 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:pg75339:13:49
# text = When the host, returning to Paris, came to the river Meuse, a millstone was tied about his neck, and he was cast into the river.
1	When	when	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	9	advmod	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	host	host	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	5	punct	_	_
5	returning	return	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	3	acl	_	_
6	to	to	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
7	Paris	Paris	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	5	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	3	punct	_	_
9	came	come	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	18	advcl	_	_
10	to	to	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
11	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
12	river	river	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	compound	_	_
13	Meuse	Meuse	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	9	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	9	punct	_	_
15	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
16	millstone	millstone	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	nsubj:pass	_	_
17	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	18	aux:pass	_	_
18	tied	tie	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
19	about	about	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
20	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	21	nmod:poss	_	_
21	neck	neck	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	26	punct	_	_
23	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	26	cc	_	_
24	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	26	nsubj	_	_
25	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	26	aux:pass	_	_
26	cast	cast	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	18	conj	_	_
27	into	into	ADP	IN	_	29	case	_	_
28	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	29	det	_	_
29	river	river	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	26	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
30	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	18	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **return** | gerund | the host *not said here* |  | Paris |  |  |  | vn convert-26.6.2-1 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Patient to paris=Result |
| 2 | **come** | past | the host |  |  | the river Meuse |  |  | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme to meuse=Initial\_Location |
| 3 | **tie** | past · passive |  | a millstone |  |  |  | about host's neck | vn mix-22.1-2 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient |
| 4 | **cast** | past · passive |  | host |  | the river |  |  | vn build-26.1 «NP V NP.material PP.product»: subject=Material into river=Product |

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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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