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description: And now the night came on, and the King said, "We must think of our camp; 'tis over-late to return to Roncesvalles." " Who acts: night, King, We. A sentence of «Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France» by Alfred John Church, How Charlemagne Sought Vengeance, with its dependency tree an
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# Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France, How Charlemagne Sought Vengeance, sentence 22

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And now the night came on, and the King said, "We must think of our camp; 'tis over-late to return to Roncesvalles." "

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**Who acts:** night, King, We · **What happens:** come on, say, think, return · **To what, where:** Roncesvalles · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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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 (night, King, We), 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:pg75339:36:22
# text = And now the night came on, and the King said, "We must think of our camp; 'tis over-late to return to Roncesvalles." "
1	And	and	CCONJ	CC	_	5	cc	_	_
2	now	now	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	5	advmod	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	night	night	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	_
5	came	come	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
6	on	on	ADV	RB	_	5	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
8	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	11	cc	_	_
9	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
10	King	King	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	11	nsubj	_	_
11	said	say	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
13	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	16	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	We	we	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs	16	nsubj	_	_
15	must	must	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	16	aux	_	_
16	think	think	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	11	ccomp	_	_
17	of	of	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
18	our	our	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	19	nmod:poss	_	_
19	camp	camp	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	23	punct	_	_
21	'	'	PUNCT	``	_	23	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	tis	tis	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	compound	_	_
23	over-late	over-late	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	conj	_	_
24	to	to	PART	TO	_	25	mark	_	_
25	return	return	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	23	csubj	_	_
26	to	to	ADP	IN	_	27	case	_	_
27	Roncesvalles	Roncesvalles	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	25	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	23	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
29	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	23	punct	_	_
30	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	5	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **come on** | past | the night |  |  |  | now |  | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **say** *speech: assert* | past | the King |  |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 3 | **think** *speech: other* *in a quote* | must | We |  |  |  |  | of our camp | vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 4 | **return** *in a quote* | to-infinitive |  |  | Roncesvalles |  |  |  | vn convert-26.6.2-1 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Patient to roncesvalles=Result |

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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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