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title: And now there comes a messenger from these same men, who is on his w… — Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of F… · tree and pragmatics
description: And now there comes a messenger from these same men, who is on his way to Charlemagne to seek for help. Who acts: same men. 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 76

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And now there comes a messenger from these same men, who is on his way to Charlemagne to seek for help.

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**Who acts:** same men · **What happens:** come, be, seek · **To what, where:** messenger, Charlemagne, way

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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 (same men), 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:pg75339:24:76
# text = And now there comes a messenger from these same men, who is on his way to Charlemagne to seek for help.
1	And	and	CCONJ	CC	_	4	cc	_	_
2	now	now	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	4	advmod	_	_
3	there	there	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	2	fixed	_	_
4	comes	come	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	messenger	messenger	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obj	_	_
7	from	from	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
8	these	this	DET	DT	Number=Plur|PronType=Dem	10	det	_	_
9	same	same	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	10	amod	_	_
10	men	man	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
12	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	16	nsubj	_	_
13	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	16	cop	_	_
14	on	on	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
15	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	16	nmod:poss	_	_
16	way	way	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	nmod	_	_
17	to	to	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
18	Charlemagne	Charlemagne	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	16	nmod	_	_
19	to	to	PART	TO	_	20	mark	_	_
20	seek	seek	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	16	acl	_	_
21	for	for	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
22	help	help	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **come** | present |  | a messenger |  | there | now | from this same men | vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location messenger=Theme |
| 2 | **is** | present | this same men |  | Charlemagne | man's way |  | man *nmod:poss* | tree rules |
| 3 | **seek** | to-infinitive |  |  |  |  |  | for help | vn hunt-35.1 «NP V PP.theme PP.location»: agent=Agent for help=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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