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title: Meanwhile Lucifer entered the chamber, and coming up to the Duke of… — Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of F… · tree and pragmatics
description: Meanwhile Lucifer entered the chamber, and coming up to the Duke of Naymes, who was bareheaded, took him by the beard, and drew him to himself so roughly that he had well-nigh thrown him to the ground. " Who acts: Lucifer. A sentence of «Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France» by Alfr
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# Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France, Of the Doings of the French Knights, sentence 15

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Meanwhile Lucifer entered the chamber, and coming up to the Duke of Naymes, who was bareheaded, took him by the beard, and drew him to himself so roughly that he had well-nigh thrown him to the ground. "

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**Who acts:** Lucifer · **What happens:** enter, come up, barehead, take, draw, throw · **To what, where:** chamber, Duke, Lucifer, fellow, ground

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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 (Lucifer), 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:pg75339:22:15
# text = Meanwhile Lucifer entered the chamber, and coming up to the Duke of Naymes, who was bareheaded, took him by the beard, and drew him to himself so roughly that he had well-nigh thrown him to the ground. "
1	Meanwhile	meanwhile	ADV	RB	_	3	advmod	_	_
2	Lucifer	Lucifer	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
3	entered	enter	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	chamber	chamber	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	8	punct	_	_
7	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	8	cc	_	_
8	coming	come	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	3	advcl	_	_
9	up	up	ADV	RB	_	8	advmod	_	_
10	to	to	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
11	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
12	Duke	Duke	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	8	obl	_	_
13	of	of	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
14	Naymes	Naymes	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	12	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	_
16	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	18	nsubj	_	_
17	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	18	aux:pass	_	_
18	bareheaded	barehead	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	12	acl:relcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	20	punct	_	_
20	took	take	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	parataxis	_	_
21	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	20	obj	_	_
22	by	by	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	_
23	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	24	det	_	_
24	beard	beard	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	27	punct	_	_
26	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	27	cc	_	_
27	drew	draw	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	20	conj	_	_
28	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	27	obj	_	_
29	to	to	ADP	IN	_	30	case	_	_
30	himself	himself	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs|Reflex=Yes	27	obl	_	_
31	so	so	ADV	RB	_	32	advmod	_	_
32	roughly	roughly	ADV	RB	_	39	advmod	_	_
33	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	39	mark	_	_
34	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	39	nsubj	_	_
35	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	39	aux	_	_
36	well	well	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	39	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
37	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	36	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
38	nigh	nigh	ADV	RB	_	39	advmod	_	_
39	thrown	throw	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	27	advcl	_	_
40	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	39	obj	_	_
41	to	to	ADP	IN	_	43	case	_	_
42	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	43	det	_	_
43	ground	ground	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	39	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
44	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
45	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	3	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **enter** | past | Lucifer | the chamber |  |  |  | meanwhile *property* | vn escape-51.1-1-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme chamber=Destination |
| 2 | **come up** | gerund | Lucifer *not said here* |  |  |  |  | to the Duke of Naymes | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme to duke=Initial\_Location |
| 3 | **barehead** | past · passive |  | the Duke of Naymes |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 4 | **take** | past |  |  | Lucifer |  |  | by the beard | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP ADVP»: agent=Instrument he=Destination |
| 5 | **draw** | past |  | Lucifer | Lucifer |  |  |  | vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent he=Theme to himself=Destination |
| 6 | **throw** | past · perfect | Lucifer | fellow |  | the ground |  | nigh, roughly, well *property* | vn throw-17.1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.destinations»: agent=Agent he=Theme to ground=Destination |

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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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