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title: In the first dream he saw how there gathered a great tempest in the… — Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of F… · tree and pragmatics
description: In the first dream he saw how there gathered a great tempest in the heavens, with thunders and lightnings and hail and wind, and how this fell upon his army, and how the lances caught fire, and how the shields glowed with heat, and the corslets rattled with the stroke of the hail. Who acts: King, th
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# Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France, How Charlemagne Sought Vengeance, sentence 32

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In the first dream he saw how there gathered a great tempest in the heavens, with thunders and lightnings and hail and wind, and how this fell upon his army, and how the lances caught fire, and how the shields glowed with heat, and the corslets rattled with the stroke of the hail.

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**Who acts:** King, this, lances, shields · **What happens:** see, gather, fall, catch, glow, rattle · **To what, where:** first dream, great tempest, army, fire, corslets, hail

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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 (King, this, lances, shields), 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:pg75339:36:32
# text = In the first dream he saw how there gathered a great tempest in the heavens, with thunders and lightnings and hail and wind, and how this fell upon his army, and how the lances caught fire, and how the shields glowed with heat, and the corslets rattled with the stroke of the hail.
1	In	in	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
3	first	first	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos|NumForm=Word|NumType=Ord	4	amod	_	_
4	dream	dream	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obl	_	_
5	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	6	nsubj	_	_
6	saw	see	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	acl:relcl	_	_
7	how	how	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	8	advmod	_	_
8	there	there	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	6	advmod	_	_
9	gathered	gather	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
10	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
11	great	great	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	12	amod	_	_
12	tempest	tempest	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obj	_	_
13	in	in	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
14	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
15	heavens	heaven	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	9	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	_
17	with	with	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
18	thunders	thunder	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	15	conj	_	_
19	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	20	cc	_	_
20	lightnings	lightning	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	18	conj	_	_
21	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	22	cc	_	_
22	hail	hail	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	conj	_	_
23	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	24	cc	_	_
24	wind	wind	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	29	punct	_	_
26	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	29	cc	_	_
27	how	how	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	29	advmod	_	_
28	this	this	PRON	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	29	nsubj	_	_
29	fell	fall	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	9	conj	_	_
30	upon	upon	ADP	IN	_	32	case	_	_
31	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	32	nmod:poss	_	_
32	army	army	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	29	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
33	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	38	punct	_	_
34	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	38	cc	_	_
35	how	how	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	38	advmod	_	_
36	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	37	det	_	_
37	lances	lance	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	38	nsubj	_	_
38	caught	catch	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	29	parataxis	_	_
39	fire	fire	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	38	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
40	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	45	punct	_	_
41	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	45	cc	_	_
42	how	how	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	45	advmod	_	_
43	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	44	det	_	_
44	shields	shield	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	45	nsubj	_	_
45	glowed	glow	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	38	conj	_	_
46	with	with	ADP	IN	_	47	case	_	_
47	heat	heat	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	45	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
48	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	51	punct	_	_
49	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	51	cc	_	_
50	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	51	det	_	_
51	corslets	corslet	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	45	obl	_	_
52	rattled	rattle	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	51	acl	_	_
53	with	with	ADP	IN	_	55	case	_	_
54	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	55	det	_	_
55	stroke	stroke	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	52	obl	_	_
56	of	of	ADP	IN	_	58	case	_	_
57	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	58	det	_	_
58	hail	hail	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	55	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
59	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	9	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **see** | past | King | the first dream *not said here* |  | there |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer dream=Stimulus |
| 2 | **gather** | past |  | a great tempest |  | the first dream |  | in the heavens and thunders and lightnings and hail and wind | vn deduce-97.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent tempest=Theme |
| 3 | **fall** | past | this |  |  | King's army |  |  | vn occur-48.3 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme upon army=Location |
| 4 | **catch** | past | the lances | fire |  |  |  |  | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent fire=Theme |
| 5 | **glow** | participle | the shields | the corslets |  |  |  | with heat | vn light\_emission-43.1 «NP.location V PP.theme»: agent=Location with heat=Theme |
| 6 | **rattle** | participle |  | the corslets *not said here* |  |  |  | with the stroke of the hail | vn sound\_emission-43.2 «NP.location V PP.theme»: agent=Location with stroke=Theme |
| 7 | **stroke** |  |  | the hail |  |  |  |  | nom stroke «act transitive»: of=patient |

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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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