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title: Among them was a giant, Amyon by name, who called to King Charles, s… — Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of F… · tree and pragmatics
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# Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France, How the Bridge Mantryble Was Won, sentence 44

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Among them was a giant, Amyon by name, who called to King Charles, saying, "Where is the King?

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**Who acts:** Frenchmen, name · **What happens:** be, call, say · **To what, where:** Charles, King · **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, 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 (Frenchmen, name), 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:pg75339:25:44
# text = Among them was a giant, Amyon by name, who called to King Charles, saying, "Where is the King?
1	Among	among	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
2	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	5	nsubj	_	_
3	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	cop	_	_
4	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	giant	giant	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	7	punct	_	_
7	Amyon	Amyon	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	5	obl	_	_
8	by	by	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
9	name	name	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
11	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	12	nsubj	_	_
12	called	call	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	9	acl:relcl	_	_
13	to	to	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
14	King	King	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	15	nmod:desc	_	_
15	Charles	Charles	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	12	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	_
17	saying	say	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	12	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	23	punct	_	_
19	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	20	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	Where	where	ADV	WRB	PronType=Rel	23	advmod	_	_
21	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	23	cop	_	_
22	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	23	det	_	_
23	King	King	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	17	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | past | Frenchmen *= frenchman* |  |  |  |  | Amyon by name *obl*; giant *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **call** | past | name |  | Charles  King |  |  |  | vn animal\_sounds-38 «NP V PP.recipient»: agent=Agent to charles=Recipient |
| 3 | **say** *speech: ask* | gerund | name *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent |
| 4 | **is a** *in a quote* | present |  | the King |  |  |  |  | tree rules |

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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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