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title: When Gerames and the Lady Sybil had tarried for three months in the… — Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of F… · tree and pragmatics
description: When Gerames and the Lady Sybil had tarried for three months in the tower, and had heard no tidings of Huon, they were greatly troubled and doubted what they should do. Who acts: Gerames. A sentence of «Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France» by Alfred John Church, How Huon Returned, 
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# Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France, How Huon Returned, His Errand Fulfilled, sentence 1

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When Gerames and the Lady Sybil had tarried for three months in the tower, and had heard no tidings of Huon, they were greatly troubled and doubted what they should do.

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**Who acts:** Gerames · **What happens:** tarry, hear, be, doubt, do · **To what, where:** tower, tidings

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This is a sentence of «Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France» by Alfred John Church, How Huon Returned, His Errand Fulfilled. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (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:pg75339:42:1
# text = When Gerames and the Lady Sybil had tarried for three months in the tower, and had heard no tidings of Huon, they were greatly troubled and doubted what they should do.
1	When	when	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	8	advmod	_	_
2	Gerames	gerame	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	8	nsubj	_	_
3	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	6	cc	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
5	Lady	Lady	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	6	compound	_	_
6	Sybil	Sybil	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	conj	_	_
7	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	8	aux	_	_
8	tarried	tarry	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	0	root	_	_
9	for	for	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
10	three	three	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	11	nummod	_	_
11	months	month	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	8	obl	_	_
12	in	in	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
13	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
14	tower	tower	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	_
16	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	18	cc	_	_
17	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	18	aux	_	_
18	heard	hear	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	8	conj	_	_
19	no	no	DET	DT	PronType=Neg	20	det	_	_
20	tidings	tiding	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	18	obj	_	_
21	of	of	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
22	Huon	Huon	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	20	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	27	punct	_	_
24	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	27	nsubj	_	_
25	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	27	cop	_	_
26	greatly	greatly	ADV	RB	_	27	advmod	_	_
27	troubled	troubled	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	18	parataxis	_	_
28	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	29	cc	_	_
29	doubted	doubt	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	27	conj	_	_
30	what	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	33	obj	_	_
31	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	33	nsubj	_	_
32	should	should	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	33	aux	_	_
33	do	do	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	29	ccomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
34	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	8	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **tarry** | past · perfect | Gerames and the Lady Sybil |  |  | the tower | month |  | vn linger-53.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent in tower=Location |
| 2 | **hear** | past · perfect | Gerames and the Lady Sybil *not said here* | no tidings of Huon |  |  |  |  | vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer tiding=Stimulus |
| 3 | **is** | past | Gerames *= gerame* |  |  |  |  | greatly, troubled *property* | tree rules |
| 4 | **doubt** | past | Gerames *= gerame* *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn conjecture-29.5 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme |
| 5 | **do** | should | Gerames *= gerame* |  |  |  |  | what *obj* | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent what=Eventuality |

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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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