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title: At Pentecost King Charles held a court at Paris to which with others… — Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of F… · tree and pragmatics
description: At Pentecost King Charles held a court at Paris to which with others came Duke Aymon and his sons. Who acts: Duke. A sentence of «Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France» by Alfred John Church, How It Fared With the Brethren, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France, How It Fared With the Brethren, sentence 1

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At Pentecost King Charles held a court at Paris to which with others came Duke Aymon and his sons.

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**Who acts:** Duke · **What happens:** hold, come · **To what, where:** court, Pentecost Charles

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This is a sentence of «Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France» by Alfred John Church, How It Fared With the Brethren. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Duke), 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:pg75339:5:1
# text = At Pentecost King Charles held a court at Paris to which with others came Duke Aymon and his sons.
1	At	at	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
2	Pentecost	Pentecost	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	compound	_	_
3	King	King	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	nmod:desc	_	_
4	Charles	Charles	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	5	obl	_	_
5	held	hold	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
6	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	court	court	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obj	_	_
8	at	at	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
9	Paris	Paris	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	5	obl	_	_
10	to	to	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
11	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	14	obl	_	_
12	with	with	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
13	others	other	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	14	obl	_	_
14	came	come	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	conj	_	_
15	Duke	Duke	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	14	nsubj	_	_
16	Aymon	Aymon	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	15	flat	_	_
17	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	19	cc	_	_
18	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	19	nmod:poss	_	_
19	sons	son	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	15	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **hold** | past |  | a court |  | Pentecost Charles  King |  | at Paris | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent court=Theme at charles=Location |
| 2 | **come** | past | Duke and Paris's sons |  |  |  |  | with others; which *obl* | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme to which=Initial\_Location |

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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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