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title: Surely 'tis time that he should be taking rest at Aachen." — Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of F… · tree and pragmatics
description: Surely 'tis time that he should be taking rest at Aachen." Who acts: One. A sentence of «Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France» by Alfred John Church, The Treason of Ganelon, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France, The Treason of Ganelon, sentence 86

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Surely 'tis time that he should be taking rest at Aachen."

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**Who acts:** One · **What happens:** take · **To what, where:** rest, Aachen, tis time

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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 (One), 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:pg75339:28:86
# text = Surely 'tis time that he should be taking rest at Aachen."
1	Surely	surely	ADV	RB	_	4	advmod	_	_
2	'	'	PUNCT	``	_	4	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	tis	tis	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	compound	_	_
4	time	time	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
5	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	9	mark	_	_
6	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	9	nsubj	_	_
7	should	should	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	9	aux	_	_
8	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	9	aux	_	_
9	taking	take	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	4	advcl	_	_
10	rest	rest	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obj	_	_
11	at	at	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
12	Aachen	Aachen	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	9	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **take** | should · progressive | One | rest |  | Aachen |  |  | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP PP.source NP.asset»: agent=Agent rest=Theme at aachen=Asset |

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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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