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title: At the end of this time, the Admiral having gone a-hunting, and the… — Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of F… · tree and pragmatics
description: At the end of this time, the Admiral having gone a-hunting, and the watch of the bridge being negligently kept, the knights mounted their horses and issued forth. Who acts: Admiral, knights. A sentence of «Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France» by Alfred John Church, Of Richard of No
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# Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France, Of Richard of Normandy, sentence 26

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At the end of this time, the Admiral having gone a-hunting, and the watch of the bridge being negligently kept, the knights mounted their horses and issued forth.

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**Who acts:** Admiral, knights · **What happens:** go, keep, mount, issue · **To what, where:** hunting, end, watch, horses

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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 (Admiral, knights), 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:pg75339:24:26
# text = At the end of this time, the Admiral having gone a-hunting, and the watch of the bridge being negligently kept, the knights mounted their horses and issued forth.
1	At	at	ADP	IN	_	3	case	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	end	end	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	obl	_	_
4	of	of	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
5	this	this	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	6	det	_	_
6	time	time	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	3	punct	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
9	Admiral	admiral	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	nsubj	_	_
10	having	have	AUX	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	11	aux	_	_
11	gone	go	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	0	root	_	_
12	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	14	det	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	12	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	hunting	hunting	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	24	punct	_	_
16	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	24	cc	_	_
17	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
18	watch	watch	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	nsubj:pass	_	_
19	of	of	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
20	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	21	det	_	_
21	bridge	bridge	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	nmod	_	_
22	being	be	AUX	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	24	aux:pass	_	_
23	negligently	negligently	ADV	RB	_	24	advmod	_	_
24	kept	keep	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	11	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	28	punct	_	_
26	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	27	det	_	_
27	knights	knight	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	28	nsubj	_	_
28	mounted	mount	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	24	parataxis	_	_
29	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	30	nmod:poss	_	_
30	horses	horse	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	28	obj	_	_
31	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	32	cc	_	_
32	issued	issue	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	28	conj	_	_
33	forth	forth	ADV	RB	_	32	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
34	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	11	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **go** | gerund · perfect | the Admiral | a hunting |  |  | at the end of this time |  | vn meander-47.7 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location hunting=Theme |
| 2 | **keep** | gerund · passive |  | the watch of the bridge |  |  |  | negligently *property* | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme |
| 3 | **mount** | past | the knights | knights's horses |  |  |  |  | vn establish-55.5-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent horse=Patient |
| 4 | **issue** | participle | the knights *not said here* |  |  |  |  | forth *property* | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=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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