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description: Meanwhile the Admiral, sitting at a window, saw how the Frenchmen came forth to battle. Who acts: Admiral, Frenchmen. 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 pragmatics of every
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# Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France, Of the Doings of the French Knights, sentence 95

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Meanwhile the Admiral, sitting at a window, saw how the Frenchmen came forth to battle.

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**Who acts:** Admiral, Frenchmen · **What happens:** sit, see, come, battle · **To what, where:** window · **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 (Admiral, Frenchmen), 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:pg75339:22:95
# text = Meanwhile the Admiral, sitting at a window, saw how the Frenchmen came forth to battle.
1	Meanwhile	meanwhile	ADV	RB	_	3	advmod	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	Admiral	admiral	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	5	punct	_	_
5	sitting	sit	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	0	root	_	_
6	at	at	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
7	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	window	window	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
10	saw	see	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	conj	_	_
11	how	how	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	14	advmod	_	_
12	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
13	Frenchmen	Frenchman	PROPN	NNPS	Number=Plur	14	nsubj	_	_
14	came	come	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	10	ccomp	_	_
15	forth	forth	ADV	RB	_	14	advmod	_	_
16	to	to	PART	TO	_	17	mark	_	_
17	battle	battle	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	14	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **sit** | gerund | the Admiral |  |  | a window |  |  | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent at window=Location |
| 2 | **see** | past | the Admiral *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V how S\_INF»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus |
| 3 | **come** | past | the Frenchmen |  |  |  |  | forth *property* | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 4 | **battle** | to-infinitive | the Frenchmen *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn battle-36.4-1 «NP V»: agent=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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