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description: So the Provost, coming to the castle gate, said that he greatly desired to see Huon, who coming, desired to know who he was. Who acts: Provost, 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
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# Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France, Of the End of the False Duke Macaire, sentence 81

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So the Provost, coming to the castle gate, said that he greatly desired to see Huon, who coming, desired to know who he was.

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**Who acts:** Provost, Huon · **What happens:** come, say, desire, see, know, be · **To what, where:** castle gate, Huon · **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 (Provost, 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:pg75339:40:81
# text = So the Provost, coming to the castle gate, said that he greatly desired to see Huon, who coming, desired to know who he was.
1	So	so	ADV	RB	_	11	advmod	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	Provost	Provost	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	11	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	5	punct	_	_
5	coming	come	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	3	acl	_	_
6	to	to	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
8	castle	castle	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	compound	_	_
9	gate	gate	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	3	punct	_	_
11	said	say	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
12	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	15	mark	_	_
13	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	15	nsubj	_	_
14	greatly	greatly	ADV	RB	_	15	advmod	_	_
15	desired	desire	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	11	ccomp	_	_
16	to	to	PART	TO	_	17	mark	_	_
17	see	see	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	15	xcomp	_	_
18	Huon	Huon	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	17	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	21	punct	_	_
20	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	21	nsubj	_	_
21	coming	come	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	18	acl	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	23	punct	_	_
23	desired	desire	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	18	acl:relcl	_	_
24	to	to	PART	TO	_	25	mark	_	_
25	know	know	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	23	xcomp	_	_
26	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	25	ccomp	_	_
27	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	26	nsubj	_	_
28	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	26	cop	_	SpaceAfter=No
29	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	11	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **come** | gerund | the Provost *not said here* |  |  | the castle gate |  |  | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme to gate=Initial\_Location |
| 2 | **say** *speech: assert* | past | the Provost |  |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 3 | **desire** | past | Provost |  |  |  |  | greatly *property* | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S\_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme |
| 4 | **see** *not said to happen* | to-infinitive | Provost *not said here* | Huon |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer huon=Stimulus |
| 5 | **come** | gerund | Huon |  |  |  |  |  | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 6 | **desire** | participle |  | Huon *not said here* |  |  |  |  | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S\_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme |
| 7 | **know** *not said to happen* | to-infinitive |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer |
| 8 | **is a** | past | Provost |  |  |  |  |  | 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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