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title: So these two companies both went their way, and in no long while app… — Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of F… · tree and pragmatics
description: So these two companies both went their way, and in no long while approached one to the other. Who acts: two companies. A sentence of «Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France» by Alfred John Church, Of the Bridge of Mantryble, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France, Of the Bridge of Mantryble, sentence 30

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So these two companies both went their way, and in no long while approached one to the other.

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**Who acts:** two companies · **What happens:** go, approach · **To what, where:** way, one

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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 (two companies), 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:pg75339:20:30
# text = So these two companies both went their way, and in no long while approached one to the other.
1	So	so	ADV	RB	_	6	advmod	_	_
2	these	this	DET	DT	Number=Plur|PronType=Dem	4	det	_	_
3	two	two	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	4	nummod	_	_
4	companies	company	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	nsubj	_	_
5	both	both	ADV	RB	_	6	advmod	_	_
6	went	go	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
7	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	8	nmod:poss	_	_
8	way	way	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
10	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	15	cc	_	_
11	in	in	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
12	no	no	DET	DT	PronType=Neg	14	det	_	_
13	long	long	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	14	amod	_	_
14	while	while	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	obl	_	_
15	approached	approach	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	6	conj	_	_
16	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	15	obj	_	_
17	to	to	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
18	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	19	det	_	_
19	other	other	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	16	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **go** | past | this two companies | others's way |  |  |  | both *property* | vn meander-47.7 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location way=Theme |
| 2 | **approach** | past | this two companies *not said here* | one |  |  | while | to the other | vn confront-98 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent one=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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