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title: As for his servants they cursed King Charles and the land of France,… — Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of F… · tree and pragmatics
description: As for his servants they cursed King Charles and the land of France, and vehemently reproached their god Apollyon. " Who acts: servants. 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 pra
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# Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France, How Charlemagne Sought Vengeance, sentence 51

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As for his servants they cursed King Charles and the land of France, and vehemently reproached their god Apollyon. "

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**Who acts:** servants · **What happens:** curse, reproach · **To what, where:** Charles, god

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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 (servants), 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:pg75339:36:51
# text = As for his servants they cursed King Charles and the land of France, and vehemently reproached their god Apollyon. "
1	As	as	ADP	IN	ExtPos=ADP	4	case	_	_
2	for	for	ADP	IN	_	1	fixed	_	_
3	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	4	nmod:poss	_	_
4	servants	servant	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	obl	_	_
5	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	6	nsubj	_	_
6	cursed	curse	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
7	King	King	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	8	nmod:desc	_	_
8	Charles	Charles	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	6	obj	_	_
9	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	11	cc	_	_
10	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
11	land	land	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	conj	_	_
12	of	of	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
13	France	France	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	11	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	_
15	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	17	cc	_	_
16	vehemently	vehemently	ADV	RB	_	17	advmod	_	_
17	reproached	reproach	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	6	conj	_	_
18	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	19	nmod:poss	_	_
19	god	god	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	obj	_	_
20	Apollyon	Apollyon	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	19	appos	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
22	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	6	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **curse** | past | servants *= servant* | Charles  King and the land of France |  |  |  | as Meanwhile's servants | vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Agent charles=Theme as servant=Attribute |
| 2 | **reproach** | past | servants *= servant* *not said here* | servants's god |  |  |  | vehemently *property* | vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent god=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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