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title: It happened on a certain day that this man came riding furiously to… — Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of F… · tree and pragmatics
description: It happened on a certain day that this man came riding furiously to the camp where King Charles lay with his army, and asked that some one should come forth and fight with him. Who acts: It, man, Charles, one. A sentence of «Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France» by Alfred John Churc
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# Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France, How Fierabras Defied King Charles, sentence 5

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It happened on a certain day that this man came riding furiously to the camp where King Charles lay with his army, and asked that some one should come forth and fight with him.

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**Who acts:** It, man, Charles, one · **What happens:** happen, come, ride, lie, ask, fight · **To what, where:** camp · **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 Fierabras Defied King Charles. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (It, man, Charles, one), 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:pg75339:16:5
# text = It happened on a certain day that this man came riding furiously to the camp where King Charles lay with his army, and asked that some one should come forth and fight with him.
1	It	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	nsubj	_	_
2	happened	happen	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	on	on	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
4	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
5	certain	certain	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	amod	_	_
6	day	day	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obl	_	_
7	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	10	mark	_	_
8	this	this	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	9	det	_	_
9	man	man	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	nsubj	_	_
10	came	come	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	2	advcl	_	_
11	riding	ride	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	10	advcl	_	_
12	furiously	furiously	ADV	RB	_	11	advmod	_	_
13	to	to	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
14	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
15	camp	camp	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	obl	_	_
16	where	where	ADV	WRB	PronType=Rel	19	advmod	_	_
17	King	King	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	18	nmod:desc	_	_
18	Charles	Charles	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	19	nsubj	_	_
19	lay	lie	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	15	acl:relcl	_	_
20	with	with	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
21	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	22	nmod:poss	_	_
22	army	army	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	25	punct	_	_
24	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	25	cc	_	_
25	asked	ask	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	2	parataxis	_	_
26	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	30	mark	_	_
27	some	some	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	28	det	_	_
28	one	one	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	30	nsubj	_	_
29	should	should	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	30	aux	_	_
30	come	come	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	25	ccomp	_	_
31	forth	forth	ADV	RB	_	30	advmod	_	_
32	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	33	cc	_	_
33	fight	fight	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	30	conj	_	_
34	with	with	ADP	IN	_	35	case	_	_
35	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	33	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
36	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
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## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **happen** | past | It |  |  |  | day |  | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **come** | past | this man |  |  |  |  |  | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 3 | **ride** | gerund | this man *not said here* |  |  | the camp |  | furiously *property* | vn nonvehicle-51.4.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent to camp=Trajectory |
| 4 | **lie** | past | Charles  King |  |  |  |  | with man's army | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 5 | **ask** *speech: ask* | past |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 6 | **come** | should | some one |  |  |  |  | forth *property* | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 7 | **fight** | infinitive | some one *not said here* |  |  |  |  | with man | vn battle-36.4-1 «NP V PP.co-agent»: agent=Agent with he=Co-Agent |

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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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