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title: I live in these parts--my house is seven miles hence--and I earn my… — Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of F… · tree and pragmatics
description: I live in these parts--my house is seven miles hence--and I earn my bread with no little toil, selling coals to such as need them." " Who acts: I, house, such as. A sentence of «Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France» by Alfred John Church, How Ralph Entertained the King, with its dep
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# Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France, How Ralph Entertained the King, sentence 8

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I live in these parts--my house is seven miles hence--and I earn my bread with no little toil, selling coals to such as need them." "

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**Who acts:** I, house, such as · **What happens:** live, be, earn, sell, need · **To what, where:** parts, seven miles, bread, coals

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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 (I, house, such as), 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:pg75339:14:8
# text = I live in these parts--my house is seven miles hence--and I earn my bread with no little toil, selling coals to such as need them." "
1	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	2	nsubj	_	_
2	live	live	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	in	in	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
4	these	this	DET	DT	Number=Plur|PronType=Dem	5	det	_	_
5	parts	part	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	--	--	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	my	my	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	8	nmod:poss	_	_
8	house	house	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	nsubj	_	_
9	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	11	cop	_	_
10	seven	seven	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	11	nummod	_	_
11	miles	mile	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	conj	_	_
12	hence	hence	ADV	RB	_	11	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	--	--	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	16	cc	_	_
15	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	16	nsubj	_	_
16	earn	earn	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	2	conj	_	_
17	my	my	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	18	nmod:poss	_	_
18	bread	bread	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	obj	_	_
19	with	with	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
20	no	no	DET	DT	PronType=Neg	22	det	_	_
21	little	little	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	22	amod	_	_
22	toil	toil	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	24	punct	_	_
24	selling	sell	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	16	advcl	_	_
25	coals	coal	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	24	obj	_	_
26	to	to	SCONJ	IN	_	29	mark	_	_
27	such	such	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	28	amod	_	_
28	as	a	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	29	nsubj	_	_
29	need	need	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	24	advcl	_	_
30	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	29	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
31	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
32	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	2	punct	_	_
33	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	2	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **live** | present | I |  |  | this parts and seven miles |  |  | vn lodge-46 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in part=Location |
| 2 | **is a** | present | my house | seven miles |  |  |  | hence *property* | tree rules |
| 3 | **earn** | present | I | my bread |  |  |  | with no little toil | vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent bread=Theme |
| 4 | **sell** | gerund | I *not said here* | coals |  |  |  |  | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent coal=Theme |
| 5 | **need** | present | such as | coals *= coal* |  |  |  |  | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot they=Theme |

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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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