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title: Then he mounted to the top of the Tower, and sounded his trumpet, so… — Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of F… · tree and pragmatics
description: Then he mounted to the top of the Tower, and sounded his trumpet, so that many thousands of men assembled. Who acts: man, many thousands. 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 o
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# Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France, Of Richard of Normandy, sentence 79

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Then he mounted to the top of the Tower, and sounded his trumpet, so that many thousands of men assembled.

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**Who acts:** man, many thousands · **What happens:** mount, sound, assemble · **To what, where:** top, trumpet

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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, many thousands), 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:pg75339:24:79
# text = Then he mounted to the top of the Tower, and sounded his trumpet, so that many thousands of men assembled.
1	Then	then	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	3	advmod	_	_
2	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
3	mounted	mount	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	to	to	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	top	top	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	_
7	of	of	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
9	Tower	Tower	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	6	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
11	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	12	cc	_	_
12	sounded	sound	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	parataxis	_	_
13	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	14	nmod:poss	_	_
14	trumpet	trumpet	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	22	punct	_	_
16	so	so	SCONJ	IN	_	22	mark	_	_
17	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	22	mark	_	_
18	many	many	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	19	amod	_	_
19	thousands	thousand	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	22	nsubj	_	_
20	of	of	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
21	men	man	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	19	nmod	_	_
22	assembled	assemble	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	12	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **mount** | past | man |  |  | the top of the Tower | then |  | vn meander-47.7 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme to top=Location |
| 2 | **sound** | past |  | man's trumpet |  |  |  |  | vn sound\_emission-43.2 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location trumpet=Theme |
| 3 | **assemble** | participle | many thousands of men |  |  |  |  |  | vn herd-47.5.2 «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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