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title: When he came to himself he asked his lords again for counsel, for he… — Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of F… · tree and pragmatics
description: When he came to himself he asked his lords again for counsel, for he was loath to go back and leave Roland and the other Peers without help. Who acts: King. A sentence of «Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France» by Alfred John Church, Of Richard of Normandy, with its dependency tree a
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# Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France, Of Richard of Normandy, sentence 102

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When he came to himself he asked his lords again for counsel, for he was loath to go back and leave Roland and the other Peers without help.

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**Who acts:** King · **What happens:** come, ask, be, go back, leave · **To what, where:** King, lords, Roland

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This is a sentence of «Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France» by Alfred John Church, Of Richard of Normandy. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (King), 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:pg75339:24:102
# text = When he came to himself he asked his lords again for counsel, for he was loath to go back and leave Roland and the other Peers without help.
1	When	when	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	3	advmod	_	_
2	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
3	came	come	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	7	advcl	_	_
4	to	to	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
5	himself	himself	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs|Reflex=Yes	3	obl	_	_
6	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	7	nsubj	_	_
7	asked	ask	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
8	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	9	nmod:poss	_	_
9	lords	lord	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	7	obj	_	_
10	again	again	ADV	RB	_	7	advmod	_	_
11	for	for	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
12	counsel	counsel	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	_
14	for	for	SCONJ	IN	_	17	mark	_	_
15	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	17	nsubj	_	_
16	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	17	cop	_	_
17	loath	loath	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	conj	_	_
18	to	to	PART	TO	_	19	mark	_	_
19	go	go	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	17	csubj	_	_
20	back	back	ADV	RB	_	19	advmod	_	_
21	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	22	cc	_	_
22	leave	leave	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	19	conj	_	_
23	Roland	Roland	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	22	obj	_	_
24	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	27	cc	_	_
25	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	27	det	_	_
26	other	other	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	27	amod	_	_
27	Peers	Peer	PROPN	NNPS	Number=Plur	23	conj	_	_
28	without	without	ADP	IN	_	29	case	_	_
29	help	help	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
30	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	7	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **come** | past | King |  | King |  |  |  | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme to himself=Initial\_Location |
| 2 | **ask** *speech: ask* | past | King |  | King's lords |  | again | for counsel | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent lord=Recipient |
| 3 | **is** | past | King |  |  |  |  | loath *property* | tree rules |
| 4 | **go back** | to-infinitive |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn convert-26.6.2 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Patient |
| 5 | **leave** | infinitive |  | Roland and the other Peers |  |  |  | without help | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent roland=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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