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description: In the morning every man hears Mass when it is said; they are wont also to give alms to such as are in need. Who acts: man, tables, alms. 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 tree and the
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# Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France, Of the Doings of the French Knights, sentence 25

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In the morning every man hears Mass when it is said; they are wont also to give alms to such as are in need.

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**Who acts:** man, tables, alms · **What happens:** hear, say, be, give · **To what, where:** Mass, folly, need · **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, 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 (man, tables, alms), 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:pg75339:22:25
# text = In the morning every man hears Mass when it is said; they are wont also to give alms to such as are in need.
1	In	in	ADP	IN	_	3	case	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	morning	morning	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obl	_	_
4	every	every	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	5	det	_	_
5	man	man	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nsubj	_	_
6	hears	hear	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
7	Mass	Mass	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	6	obj	_	_
8	when	when	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	11	advmod	_	_
9	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	11	nsubj	_	_
10	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	11	aux:pass	_	_
11	said	say	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	6	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
13	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	15	nsubj	_	_
14	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	15	cop	_	_
15	wont	wont	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	parataxis	_	_
16	also	also	ADV	RB	_	15	advmod	_	_
17	to	to	PART	TO	_	18	mark	_	_
18	give	give	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	15	advcl	_	_
19	alms	alm	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	25	nsubj	_	_
20	to	to	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
21	such	such	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	19	amod	_	_
22	as	as	ADP	IN	_	21	fixed	_	_
23	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	25	cop	_	_
24	in	in	ADP	IN	_	25	case	_	_
25	need	need	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	ccomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **hear** | present | every man | Mass |  |  | morning |  | vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer mass=Stimulus |
| 2 | **say** *speech: assert* | present · passive |  | folly |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: subject=Topic |
| 3 | **is** | present | tables *= table* |  |  |  |  | wont *property* | tree rules |
| 4 | **give** | to-infinitive | tables *= table* *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn break\_down-45.8 «NP V»: agent=Patient |
| 5 | **is** | present | alms |  |  | need |  |  | 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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