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title: And bright and clear was the sound of the trumpets; but the brightes… — Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of F… · tree and pragmatics
description: And bright and clear was the sound of the trumpets; but the brightest and clearest of all was the horn of Charles the great King. A sentence of «Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France» by Alfred John Church, How Charlemagne Sought Vengeance, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics
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# Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France, How Charlemagne Sought Vengeance, sentence 136

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And bright and clear was the sound of the trumpets; but the brightest and clearest of all was the horn of Charles the great King.

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**What happens:** be · **To what, where:** bright sound, clearest horn

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This is a sentence of «Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France» by Alfred John Church, How Charlemagne Sought Vengeance. 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:pg75339:36:136
# text = And bright and clear was the sound of the trumpets; but the brightest and clearest of all was the horn of Charles the great King.
1	And	and	CCONJ	CC	_	7	cc	_	_
2	bright	bright	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	amod	_	_
3	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	4	cc	_	_
4	clear	clear	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	2	conj	_	_
5	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	7	cop	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	sound	sound	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
8	of	of	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
9	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
10	trumpets	trumpet	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	7	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	21	punct	_	_
12	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	16	cc	_	_
13	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
14	brightest	bright	ADJ	JJS	Degree=Sup	16	amod	_	_
15	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	16	cc	_	_
16	clearest	clear	ADJ	JJS	Degree=Sup	21	amod	_	_
17	of	of	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
18	all	all	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	16	obl	_	_
19	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	21	cop	_	_
20	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	21	det	_	_
21	horn	horn	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	conj	_	_
22	of	of	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
23	Charles	Charles	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	21	nmod	_	_
24	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	26	det	_	_
25	great	great	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	26	amod	_	_
26	King	King	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	23	appos	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	7	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** | past |  | the bright sound and the clearest horn |  |  |  | of the trumpets | tree rules |
| 2 | **is a** | past |  | the clearest horn |  |  |  | of Charles | 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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