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title: When he came to the Bridge Mantryble, he said to Gallafer, "The Admi… — Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of F… · tree and pragmatics
description: When he came to the Bridge Mantryble, he said to Gallafer, "The Admiral is ill content with you, because you suffered the messengers of King Charles to cross the bridge. Who acts: man, Admiral, Gallafer. A sentence of «Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France» by Alfred John Church, Of 
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# Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France, Of Richard of Normandy, sentence 74

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When he came to the Bridge Mantryble, he said to Gallafer, "The Admiral is ill content with you, because you suffered the messengers of King Charles to cross the bridge.

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**Who acts:** man, Admiral, Gallafer · **What happens:** come, say, be, suffer, cross · **To what, where:** Bridge Mantryble, Gallafer, ill content, messengers, bridge · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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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 (man, Admiral, Gallafer), 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:pg75339:24:74
# text = When he came to the Bridge Mantryble, he said to Gallafer, "The Admiral is ill content with you, because you suffered the messengers of King Charles to cross the bridge.
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	10	advcl	_	_
4	to	to	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
6	Bridge	Bridge	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	7	compound	_	_
7	Mantryble	Mantryble	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	3	punct	_	_
9	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	10	nsubj	_	_
10	said	say	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
11	to	to	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
12	Gallafer	Gallafer	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	10	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	19	punct	_	_
14	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	19	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
16	Admiral	admiral	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	nsubj	_	_
17	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	19	cop	_	_
18	ill	ill	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	19	amod	_	_
19	content	content	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	appos	_	_
20	with	with	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
21	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Person=2|PronType=Prs	19	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	25	punct	_	_
23	because	because	SCONJ	IN	_	25	mark	_	_
24	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	25	nsubj	_	_
25	suffered	suffer	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	10	conj	_	_
26	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	27	det	_	_
27	messengers	messenger	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	25	obj	_	_
28	of	of	ADP	IN	_	30	case	_	_
29	King	King	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	30	nmod:desc	_	_
30	Charles	Charles	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	27	nmod	_	_
31	to	to	PART	TO	_	32	mark	_	_
32	cross	cross	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	25	advcl	_	_
33	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	34	det	_	_
34	bridge	bridge	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	32	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
35	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	10	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **come** | past | man |  |  | the Bridge Mantryble |  |  | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme to mantryble=Initial\_Location |
| 2 | **say** *speech: assert* | past | man |  | Gallafer |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V PP.recipient S-Quote»: agent=Agent to gallafer=Recipient |
| 3 | **is a** *in a quote* | present | the Admiral | ill content |  |  |  | with Gallafer | tree rules |
| 4 | **suffer** *in a quote* | past | Gallafer | the messengers of Charles  King |  |  |  |  | vn admire-31.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer messenger=Stimulus |
| 5 | **cross** *in a quote* | to-infinitive | Gallafer *not said here* | the bridge |  |  |  |  | vn crane-40.3.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent bridge=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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