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title: And when the ten knights were quit of the town, and were come into t… — Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of F… · tree and pragmatics
description: And when the ten knights were quit of the town, and were come into the fields, they began to weep and lament, not for Lothair only, but also for themselves, for they feared the King. Who acts: knights. A sentence of «Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France» by Alfred John Church, The S
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# Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France, The Slaying of Lothair, sentence 74

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And when the ten knights were quit of the town, and were come into the fields, they began to weep and lament, not for Lothair only, but also for themselves, for they feared the King.

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**Who acts:** knights · **What happens:** quit, come, begin, weep, lament, fear · **To what, where:** ten knights, fields, King

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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 (knights), 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:pg75339:3:74
# text = And when the ten knights were quit of the town, and were come into the fields, they began to weep and lament, not for Lothair only, but also for themselves, for they feared the King.
1	And	and	CCONJ	CC	_	20	cc	_	_
2	when	when	SCONJ	WRB	_	7	mark	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
4	ten	ten	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	5	nummod	_	_
5	knights	knight	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	7	nsubj:pass	_	_
6	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	7	aux:pass	_	_
7	quit	quit	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	20	advcl	_	_
8	of	of	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
9	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
10	town	town	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
12	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	14	cc	_	_
13	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	14	aux:pass	_	_
14	come	come	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	7	conj	_	_
15	into	into	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
16	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
17	fields	field	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	14	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	7	punct	_	_
19	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	20	nsubj	_	_
20	began	begin	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
21	to	to	PART	TO	_	22	mark	_	_
22	weep	weep	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	20	xcomp	_	_
23	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	24	cc	_	_
24	lament	lament	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	22	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	28	punct	_	_
26	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	28	advmod	_	_
27	for	for	ADP	IN	_	28	case	_	_
28	Lothair	Lothair	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	22	obl	_	_
29	only	only	ADV	RB	_	22	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
30	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	34	punct	_	_
31	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	34	cc	_	_
32	also	also	ADV	RB	_	34	advmod	_	_
33	for	for	ADP	IN	_	34	case	_	_
34	themselves	themselves	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs|Reflex=Yes	20	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
35	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	38	punct	_	_
36	for	for	SCONJ	IN	_	38	mark	_	_
37	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	38	nsubj	_	_
38	feared	fear	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	20	conj	_	_
39	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	40	det	_	_
40	King	King	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	38	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
41	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	20	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **quit** | past · passive |  | the ten knights |  |  |  | of the town | vn resign-10.11-2 «NP V NP»: subject=Source |
| 2 | **come** | past · passive |  |  |  | the fields |  |  | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: into field=Initial\_Location |
| 3 | **begin** | past | knights *= knight* |  |  |  |  | for knights *= knight* | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S\_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality |
| 4 | **weep** | to-infinitive | knights *= knight* *not said here* |  |  |  |  | for Lothair | vn breathe-40.1.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 5 | **lament** | infinitive | knights *= knight* *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn admire-31.2 «NP V that S»: agent=Experiencer |
| 6 | **fear** | past | knights *= knight* | the King |  |  |  |  | vn admire-31.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer king=Stimulus |

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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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