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title: A great company from many regions were gathered together to the King… — Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of F… · tree and pragmatics
description: A great company from many regions were gathered together to the King at Aachen; men from Saxony and from Bavaria, and from Poitou, Normans, and French, and Germans from beyond the Rhine. A sentence of «Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France» by Alfred John Church, Of the Punishment of
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# Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France, Of the Punishment of Ganelon, sentence 24

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A great company from many regions were gathered together to the King at Aachen; men from Saxony and from Bavaria, and from Poitou, Normans, and French, and Germans from beyond the Rhine.

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**What happens:** gather · **To what, where:** great company, Poitou

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This is a sentence of «Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France» by Alfred John Church, Of the Punishment of Ganelon. 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:pg75339:37:24
# text = A great company from many regions were gathered together to the King at Aachen; men from Saxony and from Bavaria, and from Poitou, Normans, and French, and Germans from beyond the Rhine.
1	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	great	great	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	company	company	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	nsubj:pass	_	_
4	from	from	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
5	many	many	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	amod	_	_
6	regions	region	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	nmod	_	_
7	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	8	aux:pass	_	_
8	gathered	gather	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
9	together	together	ADV	RB	_	8	advmod	_	_
10	to	to	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
11	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
12	King	King	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	8	obl	_	_
13	at	at	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
14	Aachen	Aachen	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	12	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
16	men	man	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	8	obl	_	_
17	from	from	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
18	Saxony	Saxony	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	16	nmod	_	_
19	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	21	cc	_	_
20	from	from	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
21	Bavaria	Bavaria	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	18	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	25	punct	_	_
23	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	25	cc	_	_
24	from	from	ADP	IN	_	25	case	_	_
25	Poitou	Poitou	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	8	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	27	punct	_	_
27	Normans	Norman	PROPN	NNPS	Number=Plur	25	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	30	punct	_	_
29	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	30	cc	_	_
30	French	French	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	25	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
31	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	33	punct	_	_
32	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	33	cc	_	_
33	Germans	German	PROPN	NNPS	Number=Plur	25	list	_	_
34	from	from	ADP	IN	_	37	case	_	_
35	beyond	beyond	ADP	IN	_	37	case	_	_
36	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	37	det	_	_
37	Rhine	Rhine	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	33	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
38	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	8	punct	_	_
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## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **gather** | past · passive |  | a great company from many regions |  | Poitou  Germans from the Rhine and Normans and French |  | to the King at Aachen; men from Saxony and Bavaria *obl*; together *property* | vn deduce-97.2 «NP V NP PP.source»: subject=Theme from poitou=Source |

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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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