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title: For not only did the Duke's men that were within the palace assail t… — Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of F… · tree and pragmatics
description: For not only did the Duke's men that were within the palace assail the Frenchmen, but the inhabitants of the town, both merchants and craftsmen, hearing the uproar, beset the gates. Who acts: men, inhabitants. A sentence of «Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France» by Alfred John Churc
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# Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France, The Slaying of Lothair, sentence 68

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For not only did the Duke's men that were within the palace assail the Frenchmen, but the inhabitants of the town, both merchants and craftsmen, hearing the uproar, beset the gates.

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**Who acts:** men, inhabitants · **What happens:** not do, assail, hear, beset · **To what, where:** that, uproar, gates

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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 (men, inhabitants), 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:pg75339:3:68
# text = For not only did the Duke's men that were within the palace assail the Frenchmen, but the inhabitants of the town, both merchants and craftsmen, hearing the uproar, beset the gates.
1	For	for	SCONJ	IN	_	4	mark	_	_
2	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	4	advmod	_	_
3	only	only	ADV	RB	_	4	advmod	_	_
4	did	do	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	14	advcl	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	Duke	Duke	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	8	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	's	's	PART	POS	_	6	case	_	_
8	men	man	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	14	nsubj	_	_
9	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	14	obj	_	_
10	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	14	aux	_	_
11	within	within	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
12	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
13	palace	palace	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	obl	_	_
14	assail	assail	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
15	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
16	Frenchmen	Frenchman	PROPN	NNPS	Number=Plur	14	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	34	punct	_	_
18	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	34	cc	_	_
19	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	20	det	_	_
20	inhabitants	inhabitant	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	34	nsubj	_	_
21	of	of	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
22	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	23	det	_	_
23	town	town	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	26	punct	_	_
25	both	both	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	26	det	_	_
26	merchants	merchant	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	20	conj	_	_
27	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	28	cc	_	_
28	craftsmen	craftsman	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	26	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
29	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	30	punct	_	_
30	hearing	hear	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	26	conj	_	_
31	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	32	det	_	_
32	uproar	uproar	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	30	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
33	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	20	punct	_	_
34	beset	beset	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	14	conj	_	_
35	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	36	det	_	_
36	gates	gate	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	34	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
37	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	14	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **not** **do** | past | the Duke's men *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **assail** | past | the Duke's men | that |  |  |  | within the palace; the Frenchmen *obj* | tree rules |
| 3 | **hear** | gerund | the inhabitants of the town and both merchants and craftsmen *not said here* | the uproar |  |  |  |  | vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer uproar=Stimulus |
| 4 | **beset** | infinitive | the inhabitants of the town and both merchants and craftsmen | the gates |  |  |  |  | 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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