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title: At noon they rested awhile under an oak, and as they rested, Oberon… — Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of F… · tree and pragmatics
description: At noon they rested awhile under an oak, and as they rested, Oberon came by, very richly clad in a garment garnished with precious stones, and holding in his hand a very precious bow. Who acts: Gerames, Oberon. A sentence of «Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France» by Alfred John Chur
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# Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France, How Huon Met With King Oberon, sentence 26

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At noon they rested awhile under an oak, and as they rested, Oberon came by, very richly clad in a garment garnished with precious stones, and holding in his hand a very precious bow.

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**Who acts:** Gerames, Oberon · **What happens:** rest, come by, clad, garnish, hold · **To what, where:** oak, precious bow, garment, hand

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This is a sentence of «Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France» by Alfred John Church, How Huon Met With King Oberon. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Gerames, Oberon), 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:pg75339:39:26
# text = At noon they rested awhile under an oak, and as they rested, Oberon came by, very richly clad in a garment garnished with precious stones, and holding in his hand a very precious bow.
1	At	at	ADP	IN	_	2	case	_	_
2	noon	noon	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	_
3	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	4	nsubj	_	_
4	rested	rest	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	awhile	awhile	ADV	RB	_	4	advmod	_	_
6	under	under	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
7	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	oak	oak	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
10	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	16	cc	_	_
11	as	as	SCONJ	IN	_	13	mark	_	_
12	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	13	nsubj	_	_
13	rested	rest	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	16	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
15	Oberon	Oberon	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	16	nsubj	_	_
16	came	come	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	conj	_	_
17	by	by	ADP	IN	_	16	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	21	punct	_	_
19	very	very	ADV	RB	_	21	advmod	_	_
20	richly	richly	ADV	RB	_	21	advmod	_	_
21	clad	clad	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	4	conj	_	_
22	in	in	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	_
23	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	24	det	_	_
24	garment	garment	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	obl	_	_
25	garnished	garnish	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	24	acl	_	_
26	with	with	ADP	IN	_	28	case	_	_
27	precious	precious	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	28	amod	_	_
28	stones	stone	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	25	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
29	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	38	punct	_	_
30	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	38	cc	_	_
31	holding	hold	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	38	csubj	_	_
32	in	in	ADP	IN	_	34	case	_	_
33	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	34	nmod:poss	_	_
34	hand	hand	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	31	obl	_	_
35	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	38	det	_	_
36	very	very	ADV	RB	_	37	advmod	_	_
37	precious	precious	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	38	amod	_	_
38	bow	bow	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
39	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **rest** | past | Gerames *= gerame* |  |  | a oak | noon | awhile *property* | vn spatial\_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme under oak=Location |
| 2 | **rest** | past | Gerames *= gerame* |  |  |  |  |  | vn spatial\_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 3 | **come by** | past | Oberon |  |  |  |  |  | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 4 | **clad** | participle | Gerames *= gerame* *not said here* | a precious bow |  | a garment |  | richly *property* | tree rules |
| 5 | **garnish** | participle |  | a garment *not said here* |  |  |  | with precious stones | vn fill-9.8 «NP V NP PP.theme»: agent=Agent with stone=Theme |
| 6 | **hold** | gerund |  |  |  | Oberon's hand |  |  | vn exist-47.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in hand=Location |

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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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