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title: When they jousted in the lists, for the King held a tournament at St… — Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of F… · tree and pragmatics
description: When they jousted in the lists, for the King held a tournament at St. Victor that was near to Paris, not one did so well as Reynaud. Who acts: knights, King, St. Victor. A sentence of «Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France» by Alfred John Church, The Slaying of Lothair, with its depe
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# Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France, The Slaying of Lothair, sentence 89

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When they jousted in the lists, for the King held a tournament at St. Victor that was near to Paris, not one did so well as Reynaud.

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**Who acts:** knights, King, St. Victor · **What happens:** joust, hold, be, do · **To what, where:** lists, tournament, St. Victor

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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, King, St. Victor), 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:pg75339:3:89
# text = When they jousted in the lists, for the King held a tournament at St. Victor that was near to Paris, not one did so well as Reynaud.
1	When	when	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	3	advmod	_	_
2	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
3	jousted	joust	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	11	advcl	_	_
4	in	in	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	lists	list	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
8	for	for	SCONJ	IN	_	11	mark	_	_
9	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
10	King	King	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	11	nsubj	_	_
11	held	hold	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
12	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
13	tournament	tournament	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	obj	_	_
14	at	at	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
15	St.	St.	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	16	compound	_	_
16	Victor	victor	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	obl	_	_
17	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	25	nsubj	_	_
18	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	21	cop	_	_
19	near	near	ADV	RB	_	21	advmod	_	_
20	to	to	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
21	Paris	Paris	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	25	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	24	punct	_	_
23	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	24	advmod	_	_
24	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	21	appos	_	_
25	did	do	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	16	acl:relcl	_	_
26	so	so	ADV	RB	_	27	advmod	_	_
27	well	well	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	25	advmod	_	_
28	as	as	ADP	IN	_	29	case	_	_
29	Reynaud	Reynaud	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	27	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
30	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	11	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **joust** | past | knights *= knight* |  |  | the lists |  |  | vn battle-36.4 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **hold** | past | the King | a tournament |  | St. Victor |  |  | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent tournament=Theme at victor=Location |
| 3 | **is** | past |  |  |  |  |  | to Paris; one *appos*; near *property* | tree rules |
| 4 | **do** | past | St. Victor |  |  |  |  | well *property* | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |

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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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