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title: Meanwhile, there came to the King at Paris Duke Richard of Normandy,… — Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of F… · tree and pragmatics
description: Meanwhile, there came to the King at Paris Duke Richard of Normandy, with thirty thousand men, and also the Earl Guy of Heron, and the Duke of Brittany; also many other lords and knights from Gascony, Burgundy, Flanders, and other parts. A sentence of «Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of 
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# Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France, How the Duke Benes Came By His End, sentence 23

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Meanwhile, there came to the King at Paris Duke Richard of Normandy, with thirty thousand men, and also the Earl Guy of Heron, and the Duke of Brittany; also many other lords and knights from Gascony, Burgundy, Flanders, and other parts.

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**What happens:** come · **To what, where:** Earl Guy, Paris Duke Richard

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This is a sentence of «Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France» by Alfred John Church, How the Duke Benes Came By His End. 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:pg75339:4:23
# text = Meanwhile, there came to the King at Paris Duke Richard of Normandy, with thirty thousand men, and also the Earl Guy of Heron, and the Duke of Brittany; also many other lords and knights from Gascony, Burgundy, Flanders, and other parts.
1	Meanwhile	meanwhile	ADV	RB	_	4	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	1	punct	_	_
3	there	there	PRON	EX	PronType=Dem	4	expl	_	_
4	came	come	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	to	to	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	King	King	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	_
8	at	at	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
9	Paris	Paris	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	11	compound	_	_
10	Duke	Duke	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	11	compound	_	_
11	Richard	Richard	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	_
12	of	of	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
13	Normandy	Normandy	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	11	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	_
15	with	with	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
16	thirty	thirty	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	17	compound	_	_
17	thousand	thousand	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	18	nummod	_	_
18	men	man	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	24	punct	_	_
20	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	24	cc	_	_
21	also	also	ADV	RB	_	24	advmod	_	_
22	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	24	det	_	_
23	Earl	Earl	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	24	compound	_	_
24	Guy	Guy	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	_
25	of	of	ADP	IN	_	26	case	_	_
26	Heron	Heron	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	24	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	30	punct	_	_
28	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	30	cc	_	_
29	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	30	det	_	_
30	Duke	Duke	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	_
31	of	of	ADP	IN	_	32	case	_	_
32	Brittany	Brittany	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	30	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
33	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	37	punct	_	_
34	also	also	ADV	RB	_	35	advmod	_	_
35	many	many	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	37	amod	_	_
36	other	other	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	37	amod	_	_
37	lords	lord	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	obl	_	_
38	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	39	cc	_	_
39	knights	knight	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	37	conj	_	_
40	from	from	ADP	IN	_	41	case	_	_
41	Gascony	Gascony	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	37	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
42	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	43	punct	_	_
43	Burgundy	Burgundy	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	41	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
44	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	45	punct	_	_
45	Flanders	Flanders	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	41	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
46	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	49	punct	_	_
47	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	49	cc	_	_
48	other	other	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	49	amod	_	_
49	parts	part	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
50	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **come** | past |  | the Earl Guy of Heron |  | Paris Duke Richard of Normandy; there |  | to the King; with thousand men; the Duke of Brittany *obl*; many other lords from Gascony and Burgundy and Flanders and knights *obl*; other parts *obl*; meanwhile *property* | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme to king=Initial\_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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