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title: Thereupon there was great tumult and quarrelling, and there would ha… — Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of F… · tree and pragmatics
description: Thereupon there was great tumult and quarrelling, and there would have been bloodshed had not the King been there. " 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 and the pragmatics of eve
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# Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France, Of Richard of Normandy, sentence 112

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Thereupon there was great tumult and quarrelling, and there would have been bloodshed had not the King been there. "

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**Who acts:** King · **What happens:** bloodsh, not be

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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:pg75339:24:112
# text = Thereupon there was great tumult and quarrelling, and there would have been bloodshed had not the King been there. "
1	Thereupon	thereupon	ADV	RB	_	3	advmod	_	_
2	there	there	PRON	EX	PronType=Dem	3	expl	_	_
3	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	20	cop	_	_
4	great	great	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	amod	_	_
5	tumult	tumult	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
6	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	7	cc	_	_
7	quarrelling	quarrelling	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
9	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	14	cc	_	_
10	there	there	PRON	EX	PronType=Dem	14	expl	_	_
11	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	14	aux	_	_
12	have	have	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	14	aux	_	_
13	been	be	AUX	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	14	aux:pass	_	_
14	bloodshed	bloodsh	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	3	conj	_	_
15	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	20	aux	_	_
16	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	20	advmod	_	_
17	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	20	det	_	_
18	King	King	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	20	nsubj	_	_
19	been	be	AUX	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	20	cop	_	_
20	there	there	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	20	punct	_	_
22	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	20	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **bloodsh** | would · perfect · passive | King *not said here* |  |  | there |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **not** **is** | past · perfect | King |  |  |  |  | there *property* | 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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