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title: There stood Queen Branimonde, with her priests about her, waiting an… — Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of F… · tree and pragmatics
description: There stood Queen Branimonde, with her priests about her, waiting and watching for news of the war. 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 205

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There stood Queen Branimonde, with her priests about her, waiting and watching for news of the war.

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**What happens:** stand, wait, watch · **To what, where:** Queen

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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:pg75339:36:205
# text = There stood Queen Branimonde, with her priests about her, waiting and watching for news of the war.
1	There	there	PRON	EX	PronType=Dem	2	expl	_	_
2	stood	stand	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	Queen	Queen	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	obj	_	_
4	Branimonde	Branimonde	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	flat	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	8	punct	_	_
6	with	with	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
7	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	8	nmod:poss	_	_
8	priests	priest	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	obl	_	_
9	about	about	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
10	her	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	8	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
12	waiting	wait	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	2	advcl	_	_
13	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	14	cc	_	_
14	watching	watch	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	12	conj	_	_
15	for	for	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
16	news	news	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	obl	_	_
17	of	of	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
18	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	19	det	_	_
19	war	war	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **stand** | past |  | Queen |  | there |  | with Queen's priests about Queen | vn admire-31.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer queen=Stimulus |
| 2 | **wait** | gerund |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 3 | **watch** | gerund |  |  |  |  |  | for news of the war | vn search-35.2 «NP V PP.theme NP.location»: agent=Agent for news=Theme |

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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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