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title: Thither came the Twelve Peers of France, and many other men of note,… — Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of F… · tree and pragmatics
description: Thither came the Twelve Peers of France, and many other men of note, besides strangers from Germany, England, and other realms. 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 cl
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# Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France, The Slaying of Lothair, sentence 2

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Thither came the Twelve Peers of France, and many other men of note, besides strangers from Germany, England, and other realms.

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**What happens:** come · **To what, where:** Twelve Peers

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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: 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:pg75339:3:2
# text = Thither came the Twelve Peers of France, and many other men of note, besides strangers from Germany, England, and other realms.
1	Thither	thither	ADV	RB	_	2	advmod	_	_
2	came	come	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
4	Twelve	twelve	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	5	nummod	_	_
5	Peers	Peer	PROPN	NNPS	Number=Plur	2	obl	_	_
6	of	of	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
7	France	France	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	5	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
9	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	12	cc	_	_
10	many	many	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	12	amod	_	_
11	other	other	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	12	amod	_	_
12	men	man	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	obl	_	_
13	of	of	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
14	note	note	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	_
16	besides	besides	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
17	strangers	stranger	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	obl	_	_
18	from	from	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
19	Germany	Germany	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	17	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	21	punct	_	_
21	England	England	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	19	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	25	punct	_	_
23	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	25	cc	_	_
24	other	other	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	25	amod	_	_
25	realms	realm	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **come** | past |  | the Twelve Peers of France |  |  |  | besides strangers from Germany and England; many other men of note *obl*; other realms *obl*; thither *property* | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |

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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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