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title: There were thousands of his people around him, but not a word was sa… — Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of F… · tree and pragmatics
description: There were thousands of his people around him, but not a word was said, so greatly did they all desire to hear the tidings that Ganelon and Blancandrin might be bringing with them. Who acts: thousands, tidings. A sentence of «Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France» by Alfred John Chur
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# Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France, The Treason of Ganelon, sentence 34

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There were thousands of his people around him, but not a word was said, so greatly did they all desire to hear the tidings that Ganelon and Blancandrin might be bringing with them.

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**Who acts:** thousands, tidings · **What happens:** be, say, do, desire, hear, bring · **To what, where:** word, tidings · **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, The Treason of Ganelon. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (thousands, tidings), 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:pg75339:28:34
# text = There were thousands of his people around him, but not a word was said, so greatly did they all desire to hear the tidings that Ganelon and Blancandrin might be bringing with them.
1	There	there	PRON	EX	PronType=Dem	2	expl	_	_
2	were	be	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	thousands	thousand	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	nsubj	_	_
4	of	of	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
5	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	6	nmod:poss	_	_
6	people	people	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	nmod	_	_
7	around	around	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
8	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	6	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
10	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	15	cc	_	_
11	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	13	advmod	_	_
12	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
13	word	word	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	nsubj:pass	_	_
14	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	15	aux:pass	_	_
15	said	say	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	2	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	19	punct	_	_
17	so	so	ADV	RB	_	19	advmod	_	_
18	greatly	greatly	ADV	RB	_	19	advmod	_	_
19	did	do	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	15	ccomp	_	_
20	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	22	nsubj	_	_
21	all	all	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	22	advmod	_	_
22	desire	desire	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	19	parataxis	_	_
23	to	to	PART	TO	_	24	mark	_	_
24	hear	hear	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	22	xcomp	_	_
25	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	26	det	_	_
26	tidings	tiding	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	24	obj	_	_
27	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	33	nsubj	_	_
28	Ganelon	Ganelon	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	33	nsubj	_	_
29	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	30	cc	_	_
30	Blancandrin	Blancandrin	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	28	conj	_	_
31	might	might	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	33	aux	_	_
32	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	33	aux	_	_
33	bringing	bring	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	26	acl:relcl	_	_
34	with	with	ADP	IN	_	35	case	_	_
35	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	33	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
36	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **be** | past | thousands of King's people around King |  |  | there |  |  | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **say** *speech: assert* | past · passive |  | a word |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **do** | past |  |  |  |  |  | greatly *property* | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 4 | **desire** | present | thousands *= thousand* |  |  |  |  |  | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S\_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme |
| 5 | **hear** *not said to happen* | to-infinitive | thousands *= thousand* *not said here* | the tidings |  |  |  |  | vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer tiding=Stimulus |
| 6 | **bring** | might · progressive | the tidings |  |  |  |  | with thousands *= thousand*; Ganelon and Blancandrin *nsubj* | vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP together»: agent=Agent |

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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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