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title: We would fain tarry awhile at Aygremore; also we have gifts, many an… — Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of F… · tree and pragmatics
description: We would fain tarry awhile at Aygremore; also we have gifts, many and precious, for the Admiral. Who acts: We. A sentence of «Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France» by Alfred John Church, How the Bridge Mantryble Was Won, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France, How the Bridge Mantryble Was Won, sentence 12

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We would fain tarry awhile at Aygremore; also we have gifts, many and precious, for the Admiral.

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**Who acts:** We · **What happens:** fain, have · **To what, where:** Aygremore, gifts

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This is a sentence of «Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France» by Alfred John Church, How the Bridge Mantryble Was Won. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (We), 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:pg75339:25:12
# text = We would fain tarry awhile at Aygremore; also we have gifts, many and precious, for the Admiral.
1	We	we	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
2	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	3	aux	_	_
3	fain	fain	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
4	tarry	tarry	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	xcomp	_	_
5	awhile	awhile	ADV	RB	_	3	advmod	_	_
6	at	at	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
7	Aygremore	Aygremore	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
9	also	also	ADV	RB	_	11	advmod	_	_
10	we	we	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs	11	nsubj	_	_
11	have	have	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	3	parataxis	_	_
12	gifts	gift	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	11	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
14	many	many	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	12	appos	_	_
15	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	16	cc	_	_
16	precious	precious	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	14	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	20	punct	_	_
18	for	for	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
19	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	20	det	_	_
20	Admiral	admiral	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **fain** | would | We |  |  | Aygremore |  | awhile, tarry *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **have** | present | we | gifts |  |  |  | the Admiral *conj* | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent gift=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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