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title: Vespers would correspond to our Evening Service, though a little ear… — Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of F… · tree and pragmatics
description: Vespers would correspond to our Evening Service, though a little earlier, as at 6 p.m. Compline came at some varying interval after. Who acts: Vespers, our. A sentence of «Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France» by Alfred John Church, How the Duke Benes Came By His End, with its depen
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# Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France, How the Duke Benes Came By His End, sentence 56

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Vespers would correspond to our Evening Service, though a little earlier, as at 6 p.m. Compline came at some varying interval after.

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**Who acts:** Vespers, our · **What happens:** correspond, come, vary, service · **To what, where:** varying interval

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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: who acts (Vespers, our), 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:pg75339:4:56
# text = Vespers would correspond to our Evening Service, though a little earlier, as at 6 p.m. Compline came at some varying interval after.
1	Vespers	vesper	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	nsubj	_	_
2	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	3	aux	_	_
3	correspond	correspond	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
4	to	to	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
5	our	our	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	7	nmod:poss	_	_
6	Evening	evening	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	compound	_	_
7	Service	service	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	19	punct	_	_
9	though	though	SCONJ	IN	_	19	mark	_	_
10	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
11	little	little	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	12	obl	_	_
12	earlier	early	ADV	RBR	Degree=Cmp	19	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
14	as	as	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
15	at	at	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
16	6	6	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	18	nummod	_	_
17	p.m.	p.m.	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	compound	_	_
18	Compline	compline	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	obl	_	_
19	came	come	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	advcl	_	_
20	at	at	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
21	some	some	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	23	det	_	_
22	varying	vary	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	23	amod	_	_
23	interval	interval	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	obl	_	_
24	after	after	ADV	RB	_	19	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **correspond** | would | Vespers |  |  |  |  | to our Evening Service | vn correspond-36.1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **come** | past | Vespers *not said here* |  |  | some varying interval |  | as 6 p.m. Compline; after, early *property* | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme at interval=Location |
| 3 | **vary** | gerund |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn caused\_calibratable\_cos-45.6.2-1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Patient |
| 4 | **service** |  | our |  |  |  |  |  | nom service «act transitive»: poss=agent |

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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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