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title: But then coming to themselves they drew each man his sword. — Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of F… · tree and pragmatics
description: But then coming to themselves they drew each man his sword. Who acts: reins. A sentence of «Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France» by Alfred John Church, How Oliver Fought With Fierabras, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France, How Oliver Fought With Fierabras, sentence 23

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But then coming to themselves they drew each man his sword.

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**Who acts:** reins · **What happens:** come, draw · **To what, where:** reins, man

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This is a sentence of «Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France» by Alfred John Church, How Oliver Fought With Fierabras. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (reins), 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:pg75339:17:23
# text = But then coming to themselves they drew each man his sword.
1	But	but	CCONJ	CC	_	7	cc	_	_
2	then	then	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	3	advmod	_	_
3	coming	come	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	7	advcl	_	_
4	to	to	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
5	themselves	themselves	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs|Reflex=Yes	3	obl	_	_
6	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	7	nsubj	_	_
7	drew	draw	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
8	each	each	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	9	det	_	_
9	man	man	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obj	_	_
10	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	11	nmod:poss	_	_
11	sword	sword	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	7	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **come** | gerund | reins *= rein* *not said here* |  | reins *= rein* |  | then |  | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme to themselves=Initial\_Location |
| 2 | **draw** | past | reins *= rein* | each man  man's sword |  |  |  |  | vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent man=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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