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title: So they wrangled a long time, and still the churl was firmly set tha… — Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of F… · tree and pragmatics
description: So they wrangled a long time, and still the churl was firmly set that he would go to Wymond and to none other. " Who acts: greetings, King. A sentence of «Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France» by Alfred John Church, How Ralph Went to Court, with its dependency tree and the pragmatic
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# Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France, How Ralph Went to Court, sentence 22

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So they wrangled a long time, and still the churl was firmly set that he would go to Wymond and to none other. "

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**Who acts:** greetings, King · **What happens:** wrangle, set, go · **To what, where:** churl, Wymond

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This is a sentence of «Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France» by Alfred John Church, How Ralph Went to Court. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (greetings, 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:pg75339:15:22
# text = So they wrangled a long time, and still the churl was firmly set that he would go to Wymond and to none other. "
1	So	so	ADV	RB	_	3	advmod	_	_
2	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
3	wrangled	wrangle	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
5	long	long	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	amod	_	_
6	time	time	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
8	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	14	cc	_	_
9	still	still	ADV	RB	_	11	advmod	_	_
10	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
11	churl	churl	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	nsubj:pass	_	_
12	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	14	aux:pass	_	_
13	firmly	firmly	ADV	RB	_	14	advmod	_	_
14	set	set	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	3	conj	_	_
15	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	18	mark	_	_
16	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	18	nsubj	_	_
17	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	18	aux	_	_
18	go	go	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	14	advcl	_	_
19	to	to	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
20	Wymond	Wymond	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	18	obl	_	_
21	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	23	cc	_	_
22	to	to	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
23	none	none	PRON	NN	PronType=Neg	20	appos	_	_
24	other	other	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	23	amod	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
26	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	3	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **wrangle** | past | greetings *= greeting* |  |  |  | time |  | vn battle-36.4 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **set** | past · passive |  | the churl |  |  |  | firmly *property* | vn other\_cos-45.4-1 «NP V NP ADJ»: subject=Result |
| 3 | **go** | would | King |  |  | Wymond |  |  | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme to wymond=Initial\_Location |

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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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