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title: When the other Saracens came up and found King Clarion lying dead up… — Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of F… · tree and pragmatics
description: When the other Saracens came up and found King Clarion lying dead upon the ground they made great lamentation over him. Who acts: other Saracens, King, Saracens. A sentence of «Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France» by Alfred John Church, Of Richard of Normandy, with its dependency t
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# Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France, Of Richard of Normandy, sentence 52

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When the other Saracens came up and found King Clarion lying dead upon the ground they made great lamentation over him.

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**Who acts:** other Saracens, King, Saracens · **What happens:** come up, find, lie, make · **To what, where:** King, ground, great lamentation

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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 (other Saracens, King, Saracens), 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:pg75339:24:52
# text = When the other Saracens came up and found King Clarion lying dead upon the ground they made great lamentation over him.
1	When	when	SCONJ	WRB	_	5	mark	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
3	other	other	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	amod	_	_
4	Saracens	Saracen	PROPN	NNPS	Number=Plur	5	nsubj	_	_
5	came	come	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	8	advcl	_	_
6	up	up	ADV	RB	_	5	advmod	_	_
7	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	8	cc	_	_
8	found	find	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
9	King	King	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	8	obj	_	_
10	Clarion	Clarion	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	9	flat	_	_
11	lying	lie	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	8	xcomp	_	_
12	dead	dead	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	11	xcomp	_	_
13	upon	upon	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
14	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
15	ground	ground	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	obl	_	_
16	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	17	nsubj	_	_
17	made	make	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	15	acl:relcl	_	_
18	great	great	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	19	amod	_	_
19	lamentation	lamentation	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	obj	_	_
20	over	over	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
21	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	17	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	8	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **come up** | past | the other Saracens |  |  |  |  |  | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **find** | past |  | King |  |  |  |  | vn declare-29.4-1-1 «NP V NP ADJ»: agent=Agent king=Attribute clause=Theme |
| 3 | **lie** | gerund | King *not said here* |  |  | the ground |  | dead *property* | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent upon ground=Location |
| 4 | **make** | past | Saracens *= saracen* | great lamentation |  |  |  | over God | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset lamentation=Product |

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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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