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description: But no man knew them, so strange were they to look upon, and the townsfolk asked them, "Of what country are you?" " Who acts: man, skins, townsfolk, country. A sentence of «Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France» by Alfred John Church, How It Fared With the Brethren, with its dependen
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# Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France, How It Fared With the Brethren, sentence 108

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But no man knew them, so strange were they to look upon, and the townsfolk asked them, "Of what country are you?" "

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**Who acts:** man, skins, townsfolk, country · **What happens:** know, look, ask, be · **To what, where:** skins · **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, 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 (man, skins, townsfolk, country), 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:pg75339:5:108
# text = But no man knew them, so strange were they to look upon, and the townsfolk asked them, "Of what country are you?" "
1	But	but	CCONJ	CC	_	4	cc	_	_
2	no	no	DET	DT	PronType=Neg	3	det	_	_
3	man	man	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
4	knew	know	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	4	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	8	punct	_	_
7	so	so	ADV	RB	_	8	advmod	_	_
8	strange	strange	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	parataxis	_	_
9	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	12	aux	_	_
10	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	12	nsubj	_	_
11	to	to	PART	TO	_	12	mark	_	_
12	look	look	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	8	parataxis	_	_
13	upon	upon	ADP	IN	_	12	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	_
15	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	18	cc	_	_
16	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
17	townsfolk	townsfolk	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	nsubj	_	_
18	asked	ask	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	parataxis	_	_
19	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	18	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	23	punct	_	_
21	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	23	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	Of	of	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
23	what	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	18	parataxis	_	_
24	country	country	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	nsubj	_	_
25	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	23	cop	_	_
26	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	23	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	23	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	23	punct	_	_
29	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	23	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **know** | past | no man | skins *= skin* |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer they=Stimulus |
| 2 | **look** | past | skins *= skin* |  |  |  |  |  | vn stimulus\_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus |
| 3 | **ask** *speech: ask* | past | the townsfolk |  | skins *= skin* |  |  |  | vn urge-58.1-1-1 «NP V NP that S»: agent=Agent they=Recipient clause=Topic |
| 4 | **is** *in a quote* | present | country |  |  |  |  | you *nsubj* | 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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