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title: Not long after that Huon had been restored to his Duchy of Bordeaux,… — Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of F… · tree and pragmatics
description: Not long after that Huon had been restored to his Duchy of Bordeaux, the Emperor Charlemagne died, having been seized by a fever, which, as being now old and worn out by many labours both in war and peace, he was unable to resist. Who acts: Emperor Charlemagne, fever, Huon. A sentence of «Stories of
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# Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France, How Huon Returned, His Errand Fulfilled, sentence 119

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Not long after that Huon had been restored to his Duchy of Bordeaux, the Emperor Charlemagne died, having been seized by a fever, which, as being now old and worn out by many labours both in war and peace, he was unable to resist.

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**Who acts:** Emperor Charlemagne, fever, Huon · **What happens:** restore, die, seize, be, wear out, resist · **To what, where:** Huon, Duchy, war

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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 (Emperor Charlemagne, fever, 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:pg75339:42:119
# text = Not long after that Huon had been restored to his Duchy of Bordeaux, the Emperor Charlemagne died, having been seized by a fever, which, as being now old and worn out by many labours both in war and peace, he was unable to resist.
1	Not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	2	advmod	_	_
2	long	long	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	18	advmod	_	_
3	after	after	SCONJ	IN	_	8	mark	_	_
4	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	8	mark	_	_
5	Huon	Huon	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	8	nsubj	_	_
6	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	8	aux	_	_
7	been	be	AUX	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	8	aux:pass	_	_
8	restored	restore	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	2	advcl	_	_
9	to	to	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
10	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	11	nmod:poss	_	_
11	Duchy	Duchy	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	8	obl	_	_
12	of	of	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
13	Bordeaux	Bordeaux	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	11	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	2	punct	_	_
15	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
16	Emperor	Emperor	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	17	compound	_	_
17	Charlemagne	Charlemagne	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	18	nsubj	_	_
18	died	die	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	22	punct	_	_
20	having	have	AUX	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	22	aux	_	_
21	been	be	AUX	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	22	aux:pass	_	_
22	seized	seize	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	18	conj	_	_
23	by	by	ADP	IN	_	25	case	_	_
24	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	25	det	_	_
25	fever	fever	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	32	punct	_	_
27	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	32	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	32	punct	_	_
29	as	as	ADP	IN	_	32	case	_	_
30	being	be	AUX	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	32	cop	_	_
31	now	now	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	32	advmod	_	_
32	old	old	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	25	amod	_	_
33	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	34	cc	_	_
34	worn	wear	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	32	conj	_	_
35	out	out	ADP	RP	_	34	compound:prt	_	_
36	by	by	ADP	IN	_	38	case	_	_
37	many	many	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	38	amod	_	_
38	labours	labour	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	34	obl	_	_
39	both	both	ADV	RB	_	41	advmod	_	_
40	in	in	ADP	IN	_	41	case	_	_
41	war	war	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	34	obl	_	_
42	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	43	cc	_	_
43	peace	peace	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	41	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
44	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	47	punct	_	_
45	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	47	nsubj	_	_
46	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	47	cop	_	_
47	unable	unable	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	18	advcl	_	_
48	to	to	PART	TO	_	49	mark	_	_
49	resist	resist	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	47	xcomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
50	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	18	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **restore** | past · perfect · passive |  | Huon | Huon's Duchy of Bordeaux |  |  |  | vn contribute-13.2 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: subject=Theme to duchy=Recipient |
| 2 | **die** | past | the Emperor Charlemagne |  |  |  |  | long *property* | vn calibratable\_cos-45.6.1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute |
| 3 | **seize** | gerund · perfect · passive | a fever |  |  |  |  |  | vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
| 4 | **is** | gerund | a fever |  |  |  | now | old *property* | tree rules |
| 5 | **wear out** | participle | a fever *not said here* |  |  | war and peace |  | by many labours | vn wipe\_manner-10.4.1-1 «NP V PP-Conative»: agent=Agent |
| 6 | **is** | past | Huon |  |  |  |  | unable *property* | tree rules |
| 7 | **resist** | to-infinitive | Huon *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | 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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