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title: After that the maiden's grief was somewhat spent, she sent for Bruta… — Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of F… · tree and pragmatics
description: After that the maiden's grief was somewhat spent, she sent for Brutamont the jailer, and demanded of him who were these men that he had in the dungeon. " Who acts: grief, hall. A sentence of «Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France» by Alfred John Church, How Oliver and His Comrades Fa
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# Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France, How Oliver and His Comrades Fared, sentence 54

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After that the maiden's grief was somewhat spent, she sent for Brutamont the jailer, and demanded of him who were these men that he had in the dungeon. "

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**Who acts:** grief, hall · **What happens:** spend, send, demand, be, have · **To what, where:** grief, jailer, men, dungeon · **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 Oliver and His Comrades Fared. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (grief, hall), 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:pg75339:19:54
# text = After that the maiden's grief was somewhat spent, she sent for Brutamont the jailer, and demanded of him who were these men that he had in the dungeon. "
1	After	after	ADP	IN	_	2	case	_	_
2	that	that	PRON	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	12	obl	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	maiden	maiden	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	's	's	PART	POS	_	4	case	_	_
6	grief	grief	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	nsubj	_	_
7	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	9	aux:pass	_	_
8	somewhat	somewhat	ADV	RB	_	9	advmod	_	_
9	spent	spend	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	2	acl:relcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	2	punct	_	_
11	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	12	nsubj	_	_
12	sent	send	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
13	for	for	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
14	Brutamont	Brutamont	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	12	obl	_	_
15	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
16	jailer	jailer	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	19	punct	_	_
18	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	19	cc	_	_
19	demanded	demand	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	12	conj	_	_
20	of	of	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
21	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	19	obl	_	_
22	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	25	nsubj	_	_
23	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	25	cop	_	_
24	these	this	DET	DT	Number=Plur|PronType=Dem	25	det	_	_
25	men	man	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	19	ccomp	_	_
26	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	28	mark	_	_
27	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	28	nsubj	_	_
28	had	have	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	19	advcl	_	_
29	in	in	ADP	IN	_	31	case	_	_
30	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	31	det	_	_
31	dungeon	dungeon	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	28	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
32	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	12	punct	_	_
33	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	12	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **spend** | past · passive |  | the maiden's grief |  |  |  | somewhat *property* | vn consume-66-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Asset |
| 2 | **send** | past | grief | the jailer |  |  | after that | for Brutamont | vn confine-92-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent jailer=Theme |
| 3 | **demand** *speech: request* | past | grief *not said here* |  |  |  |  | of Brutamont | vn require-103-1 «NP V NP S\_INF»: agent=Theme |
| 4 | **is a** | past |  | this men |  |  |  | who *nsubj* | tree rules |
| 5 | **have** | past | hall |  |  | the dungeon |  |  | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=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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