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title: Charles wept for sadness of heart, and his nobles wept with him; the… — Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of F… · tree and pragmatics
description: Charles wept for sadness of heart, and his nobles wept with him; there was not one of all that company but had lost son or brother or comrade or friend. Who acts: Charles, nobles. A sentence of «Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France» by Alfred John Church, How Charlemagne Sought Veng
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# Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France, How Charlemagne Sought Vengeance, sentence 6

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Charles wept for sadness of heart, and his nobles wept with him; there was not one of all that company but had lost son or brother or comrade or friend.

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**Who acts:** Charles, nobles · **What happens:** weep, not be, lose · **To what, where:** one, son

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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 (Charles, nobles), 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:pg75339:36:6
# text = Charles wept for sadness of heart, and his nobles wept with him; there was not one of all that company but had lost son or brother or comrade or friend.
1	Charles	Charles	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	nsubj	_	_
2	wept	weep	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	for	for	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
4	sadness	sadness	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obl	_	_
5	of	of	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
6	heart	heart	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
8	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	11	cc	_	_
9	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	10	nmod:poss	_	_
10	nobles	noble	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	11	nsubj	_	_
11	wept	weep	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	2	conj	_	_
12	with	with	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
13	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	11	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	_
15	there	there	PRON	EX	PronType=Dem	18	expl	_	_
16	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	18	cop	_	_
17	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	18	advmod	_	_
18	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	2	conj	_	_
19	of	of	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
20	all	all	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	22	det	_	_
21	that	that	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	22	det	_	_
22	company	company	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	nmod	_	_
23	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	25	cc	_	_
24	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	25	aux	_	_
25	lost	lose	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	2	conj	_	_
26	son	son	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	obj	_	_
27	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	28	cc	_	_
28	brother	brother	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	26	conj	_	_
29	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	30	cc	_	_
30	comrade	comrade	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	26	conj	_	_
31	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	32	cc	_	_
32	friend	friend	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	30	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
33	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **weep** | past | Charles |  |  |  |  | for sadness of heart | vn breathe-40.1.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **weep** | past | Charles's nobles |  |  |  |  | with Charles | vn breathe-40.1.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **not** **is a** | past | Charles *not said here* | one |  | there |  | of all company | tree rules |
| 4 | **lose** | past · perfect | Charles *not said here* | son or brother or comrade or friend |  |  |  |  | vn succeed-74-3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent son=Eventuality |

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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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