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# Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France, How Ralph Entertained the King, sentence 70

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When the churl was roused, he said to the King, "Now tarry awhile till this evil weather be ended." "

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**Who acts:** King · **What happens:** rouse, say, end · **To what, where:** churl, evil weather · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of «Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France» by Alfred John Church, How Ralph Entertained the King. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (King), 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:pg75339:14:70
# text = When the churl was roused, he said to the King, "Now tarry awhile till this evil weather be ended." "
1	When	when	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	5	advmod	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	churl	churl	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nsubj:pass	_	_
4	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	aux:pass	_	_
5	roused	rouse	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	8	ccomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	5	punct	_	_
7	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	8	nsubj	_	_
8	said	say	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
9	to	to	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
10	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
11	King	King	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	8	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
13	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	15	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	Now	now	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	15	advmod	_	_
15	tarry	tarry	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	ccomp	_	_
16	awhile	awhile	ADV	RB	_	15	advmod	_	_
17	till	till	SCONJ	IN	_	22	mark	_	_
18	this	this	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	20	det	_	_
19	evil	evil	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	20	amod	_	_
20	weather	weather	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	nsubj:pass	_	_
21	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	22	aux:pass	_	_
22	ended	end	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	15	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	15	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	15	punct	_	_
25	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	8	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **rouse** | past · passive |  | the churl |  |  |  |  | vn stimulate-59.4 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient |
| 2 | **say** *speech: assert* | past | King |  |  |  |  | to the King | vn indicate-78-1 «NP V PP.recipient whether/if S»: agent=Pivot to king=Experiencer clause=Topic |
| 3 | **end** *in a quote* | infinitive · passive |  | this evil weather |  |  |  |  | vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP V NP.eventuality»: subject=Eventuality |

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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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