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description: "I am journeying to Babylon," said Huon, "and would fain tarry a night in the city, for I and my company are weary." " Who acts: Huon. A sentence of «Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France» by Alfred John Church, Of the End of the False Duke Macaire, with its dependency tree and the p
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# Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France, Of the End of the False Duke Macaire, sentence 6

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"I am journeying to Babylon," said Huon, "and would fain tarry a night in the city, for I and my company are weary." "

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**Who acts:** Huon · **What happens:** journey, say, fain, be · **To what, where:** Babylon, city · **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, Of the End of the False Duke Macaire. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Huon), 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:pg75339:40:6
# text = "I am journeying to Babylon," said Huon, "and would fain tarry a night in the city, for I and my company are weary." "
1	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	4	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	4	nsubj	_	_
3	am	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	aux	_	_
4	journeying	journey	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	9	ccomp	_	_
5	to	to	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
6	Babylon	Babylon	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	4	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	4	punct	_	_
9	said	say	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
10	Huon	Huon	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	9	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	9	punct	_	_
12	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	9	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	15	cc	_	_
14	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	15	aux	_	_
15	fain	fain	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	9	conj	_	_
16	tarry	tarry	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	18	amod	_	_
17	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
18	night	night	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	obl:unmarked	_	_
19	in	in	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
20	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	21	det	_	_
21	city	city	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	29	punct	_	_
23	for	for	SCONJ	IN	_	29	mark	_	_
24	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	29	nsubj	_	_
25	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	27	cc	_	_
26	my	my	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	27	nmod:poss	_	_
27	company	company	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	conj	_	_
28	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	29	cop	_	_
29	weary	weary	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	15	parataxis	_	SpaceAfter=No
30	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	29	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
31	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	29	punct	_	_
32	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	15	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **journey** *in a quote* | present · progressive | Huon |  | Babylon |  |  |  | vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme to babylon=Destination |
| 2 | **say** *speech: assert* | past | Huon |  |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 3 | **fain** *in a quote* | would | Huon *not said here* |  |  | the city | night |  | tree rules |
| 4 | **is** *in a quote* | present | Huon |  |  |  |  | weary *property* | tree rules |

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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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