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title: King Charles held a great court in his capital city of Paris at the… — Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of F… · tree and pragmatics
description: King Charles held a great court in his capital city of Paris at the Feast of Pentecost. Who acts: King. A sentence of «Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France» by Alfred John Church, The Slaying of Lothair, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France, The Slaying of Lothair, sentence 1

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King Charles held a great court in his capital city of Paris at the Feast of Pentecost.

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**Who acts:** King · **What happens:** hold · **To what, where:** great court, capital city

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This is a sentence of «Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France» by Alfred John Church, The Slaying of Lothair. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (King), 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:pg75339:3:1
# text = King Charles held a great court in his capital city of Paris at the Feast of Pentecost.
1	King	King	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
2	Charles	Charles	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	1	flat	_	_
3	held	hold	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
5	great	great	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	amod	_	_
6	court	court	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obj	_	_
7	in	in	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
8	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	10	nmod:poss	_	_
9	capital	capital	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	compound	_	_
10	city	city	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	_
11	of	of	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
12	Paris	Paris	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	10	nmod	_	_
13	at	at	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
14	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
15	Feast	feast	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	_
16	of	of	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
17	Pentecost	Pentecost	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	15	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **hold** | past | King | a great court |  | King's capital city of Paris |  | at the Feast of Pentecost | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent court=Theme in city=Location |

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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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