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title: And now, as the day drew to the evening, these two met in combat, Ki… — Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of F… · tree and pragmatics
description: And now, as the day drew to the evening, these two met in combat, King Charles and the Emir. Who acts: these. 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 of every clause.
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# Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France, How Charlemagne Sought Vengeance, sentence 187

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And now, as the day drew to the evening, these two met in combat, King Charles and the Emir.

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**Who acts:** these · **What happens:** draw, meet · **To what, where:** combat

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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: who acts (these), 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:pg75339:36:187
# text = And now, as the day drew to the evening, these two met in combat, King Charles and the Emir.
1	And	and	CCONJ	CC	_	7	cc	_	_
2	now	now	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	7	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	2	punct	_	_
4	as	as	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	day	day	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obl	_	_
7	drew	draw	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
8	to	to	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
9	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
10	evening	evening	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
12	these	this	PRON	DT	Number=Plur|PronType=Dem	14	nsubj	_	_
13	two	two	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	14	nsubj	_	_
14	met	meet	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	7	conj	_	_
15	in	in	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
16	combat	combat	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	19	punct	_	_
18	King	King	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	19	nmod:desc	_	_
19	Charles	Charles	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	16	appos	_	_
20	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	22	cc	_	_
21	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	22	det	_	_
22	Emir	Emir	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	19	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	7	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **draw** | past |  |  |  |  | now; day; evening |  | vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **meet** | participle | these |  |  | combat |  | two *nsubj* | vn meet-36.3-1 «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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