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title: Duke Reyner could neither eat nor drink for the grief that he had ab… — Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of F… · tree and pragmatics
description: Duke Reyner could neither eat nor drink for the grief that he had about his son; and when he could no longer endure this trouble, he came to King Charles and made his complaint. " Who acts: Duke. A sentence of «Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France» by Alfred John Church, Of the Brid
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# Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France, Of the Bridge of Mantryble, sentence 1

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Duke Reyner could neither eat nor drink for the grief that he had about his son; and when he could no longer endure this trouble, he came to King Charles and made his complaint. "

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**Who acts:** Duke · **What happens:** eat, drink, have, endure, come, make · **To what, where:** trouble, Charles, complaint

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This is a sentence of «Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France» by Alfred John Church, Of the Bridge of Mantryble. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Duke), 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:pg75339:20:1
# text = Duke Reyner could neither eat nor drink for the grief that he had about his son; and when he could no longer endure this trouble, he came to King Charles and made his complaint. "
1	Duke	Duke	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	_
2	Reyner	Reyner	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	1	flat	_	_
3	could	could	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	5	aux	_	_
4	neither	neither	ADV	RB	_	5	advmod	_	_
5	eat	eat	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
6	nor	nor	CCONJ	CC	Polarity=Neg	7	cc	_	_
7	drink	drink	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	5	conj	_	_
8	for	for	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
9	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
10	grief	grief	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obl	_	_
11	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	13	mark	_	_
12	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	13	nsubj	_	_
13	had	have	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	7	advcl	_	_
14	about	about	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
15	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	16	nmod:poss	_	_
16	son	son	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	24	punct	_	_
18	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	24	cc	_	_
19	when	when	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	24	advmod	_	_
20	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	24	nsubj	_	_
21	could	could	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	24	aux	_	_
22	no	no	ADV	RB	_	23	advmod	_	_
23	longer	long	ADV	RBR	Degree=Cmp	24	advmod	_	_
24	endure	endure	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	5	conj	_	_
25	this	this	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	26	det	_	_
26	trouble	trouble	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	29	punct	_	_
28	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	29	nsubj	_	_
29	came	come	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	parataxis	_	_
30	to	to	ADP	IN	_	32	case	_	_
31	King	King	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	32	nmod:desc	_	_
32	Charles	Charles	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	29	obl	_	_
33	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	34	cc	_	_
34	made	make	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	29	conj	_	_
35	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	36	nmod:poss	_	_
36	complaint	complaint	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	34	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
37	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
38	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	5	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **eat** | could | Duke |  |  |  |  | neither *property* | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **drink** | infinitive | Duke *not said here* |  |  |  |  | for the grief | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **have** | past | Duke |  |  |  |  | about Duke's son | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
| 4 | **endure** | could | Duke | this trouble |  |  |  | long *property* | vn exist-47.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme trouble=Circumstance |
| 5 | **come** | past | Duke |  |  | Charles  King |  |  | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme to charles=Initial\_Location |
| 6 | **make** | past | Duke *not said here* | Duke's complaint |  |  |  |  | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset complaint=Product |
| 7 | **complain** |  | Duke |  |  |  |  |  | nom complaint «state intransitive»: poss=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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