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title: Meanwhile the Saracens that had accompanied King Clarion came back,… — Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of F… · tree and pragmatics
description: Meanwhile the Saracens that had accompanied King Clarion came back, bearing with them the King's body. Who acts: Saracens. 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 every clause.
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# Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France, Of Richard of Normandy, sentence 60

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Meanwhile the Saracens that had accompanied King Clarion came back, bearing with them the King's body.

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**Who acts:** Saracens · **What happens:** accompany, come back, bear · **To what, where:** Saracens, body

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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 (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:pg75339:24:60
# text = Meanwhile the Saracens that had accompanied King Clarion came back, bearing with them the King's body.
1	Meanwhile	meanwhile	ADV	RB	_	9	advmod	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	Saracens	saracen	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	9	nsubj	_	_
4	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	6	nsubj:pass	_	_
5	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	6	aux	_	_
6	accompanied	accompany	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	3	acl:relcl	_	_
7	King	King	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	8	compound	_	_
8	Clarion	Clarion	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	6	obj	_	_
9	came	come	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
10	back	back	ADV	RB	_	9	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
12	bearing	bear	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	9	advcl	_	_
13	with	with	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
14	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	12	obl	_	_
15	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
16	King	King	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	18	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	's	's	PART	POS	_	16	case	_	_
18	body	body	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	9	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **accompany** | past · perfect · passive |  | the Saracens |  |  |  | King Clarion *obj* | tree rules |
| 2 | **come back** | past | the Saracens |  |  |  |  | meanwhile *property* | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 3 | **bear** | gerund | the Saracens *not said here* | the King's body |  |  |  | with Saracens *= saracen* | vn birth-28.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent body=Patient |

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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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