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title: And while he spake, they saw Oberon on the other side of a bridge by… — Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of F… · tree and pragmatics
description: And while he spake, they saw Oberon on the other side of a bridge by which they must pass. Who acts: Oberon, Gerames. A sentence of «Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France» by Alfred John Church, How Huon Met With King Oberon, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every claus
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# Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France, How Huon Met With King Oberon, sentence 38

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And while he spake, they saw Oberon on the other side of a bridge by which they must pass.

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**Who acts:** Oberon, Gerames · **What happens:** speak, see, pass · **To what, where:** Oberon, other side · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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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 (Oberon, Gerames), 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:pg75339:39:38
# text = And while he spake, they saw Oberon on the other side of a bridge by which they must pass.
1	And	and	CCONJ	CC	_	7	cc	_	_
2	while	while	SCONJ	IN	_	4	mark	_	_
3	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	4	nsubj	_	_
4	spake	speak	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	4	punct	_	_
6	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	7	nsubj	_	_
7	saw	see	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
8	Oberon	Oberon	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	7	obj	_	_
9	on	on	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
10	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
11	other	other	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	12	amod	_	_
12	side	side	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obl	_	_
13	of	of	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
14	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
15	bridge	bridge	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	nmod	_	_
16	by	by	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
17	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	20	obl	_	_
18	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	20	nsubj	_	_
19	must	must	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	20	aux	_	_
20	pass	pass	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	15	acl:relcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	7	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **speak** *speech: other* |  | Oberon |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **see** | past | Gerames *= gerame* | Oberon |  | the other side of a bridge |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer oberon=Stimulus |
| 3 | **pass** | must | Gerames *= gerame* |  |  |  |  | by a bridge | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme by which=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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