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title: As the Admiral sat at dinner there came into the hall the chieftain… — Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of F… · tree and pragmatics
description: As the Admiral sat at dinner there came into the hall the chieftain who was named Lucifer, and was a special friend to the Admiral. Who acts: Admiral. A sentence of «Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France» by Alfred John Church, Of the Doings of the French Knights, with its dependency
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# Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France, Of the Doings of the French Knights, sentence 1

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As the Admiral sat at dinner there came into the hall the chieftain who was named Lucifer, and was a special friend to the Admiral.

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**Who acts:** Admiral · **What happens:** sit, come, name, be · **To what, where:** dinner, hall, chieftain, special friend

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This is a sentence of «Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France» by Alfred John Church, Of the Doings of the French Knights. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Admiral), 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:pg75339:22:1
# text = As the Admiral sat at dinner there came into the hall the chieftain who was named Lucifer, and was a special friend to the Admiral.
1	As	as	SCONJ	IN	_	4	mark	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	Admiral	admiral	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
4	sat	sit	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	8	advcl	_	_
5	at	at	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
6	dinner	dinner	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	_
7	there	there	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	4	advmod	_	_
8	came	come	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
9	into	into	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
10	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
11	hall	hall	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obl	_	_
12	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
13	chieftain	chieftain	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	appos	_	_
14	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	16	nsubj:pass	_	_
15	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	16	aux:pass	_	_
16	named	name	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	13	acl:relcl	_	_
17	Lucifer	Lucifer	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	16	xcomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	23	punct	_	_
19	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	23	cc	_	_
20	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	23	cop	_	_
21	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	23	det	_	_
22	special	special	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	23	amod	_	_
23	friend	friend	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obl	_	_
24	to	to	ADP	IN	_	26	case	_	_
25	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	26	det	_	_
26	Admiral	admiral	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	8	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **sit** | past | the Admiral |  |  | dinner; there |  |  | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent at dinner=Location |
| 2 | **come** | past |  |  |  | the hall |  |  | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme into hall=Initial\_Location |
| 3 | **name** | past · passive |  | the chieftain |  |  |  | Lucifer *xcomp* | vn appoint-29.1 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme |
| 4 | **is a** | past |  | a special friend |  |  |  | to the Admiral | tree rules |

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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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