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title: Now the Duke Aymon chanced to be hawking that day by the river, and… — Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of F… · tree and pragmatics
description: Now the Duke Aymon chanced to be hawking that day by the river, and the Duchess was in her chamber, where she was wont to sit, in much grief because she had no tidings of her children. Who acts: Duke Aymon, Duchess, townsfolk. A sentence of «Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France» by 
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# Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France, How It Fared With the Brethren, sentence 110

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Now the Duke Aymon chanced to be hawking that day by the river, and the Duchess was in her chamber, where she was wont to sit, in much grief because she had no tidings of her children.

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**Who acts:** Duke Aymon, Duchess, townsfolk · **What happens:** chance, hawk, be, sit, have · **To what, where:** chamber, much grief, tidings

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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 Aymon, Duchess, townsfolk), 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:pg75339:5:110
# text = Now the Duke Aymon chanced to be hawking that day by the river, and the Duchess was in her chamber, where she was wont to sit, in much grief because she had no tidings of her children.
1	Now	now	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	5	advmod	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
3	Duke	Duke	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	compound	_	_
4	Aymon	Aymon	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	_
5	chanced	chance	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
6	to	to	PART	TO	_	8	mark	_	_
7	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	8	aux	_	_
8	hawking	hawk	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	5	advcl	_	_
9	that	that	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	10	det	_	_
10	day	day	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obj	_	_
11	by	by	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
12	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
13	river	river	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	21	punct	_	_
15	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	21	cc	_	_
16	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
17	Duchess	Duchess	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	21	nsubj	_	_
18	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	21	cop	_	_
19	in	in	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
20	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	21	nmod:poss	_	_
21	chamber	chamber	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	parataxis	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	26	punct	_	_
23	where	where	ADV	WRB	PronType=Rel	26	advmod	_	_
24	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	26	nsubj	_	_
25	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	26	cop	_	_
26	wont	wont	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	21	conj	_	_
27	to	to	PART	TO	_	28	mark	_	_
28	sit	sit	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	26	xcomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
29	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	32	punct	_	_
30	in	in	ADP	IN	_	32	case	_	_
31	much	much	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	32	amod	_	_
32	grief	grief	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	28	obl	_	_
33	because	because	SCONJ	IN	_	35	mark	_	_
34	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	35	nsubj	_	_
35	had	have	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	28	advcl	_	_
36	no	no	DET	DT	PronType=Neg	37	det	_	_
37	tidings	tiding	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	35	obj	_	_
38	of	of	ADP	IN	_	40	case	_	_
39	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	40	nmod:poss	_	_
40	children	child	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	37	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
41	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **chance** | past | the Duke Aymon |  |  |  | now |  | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **hawk** | to-infinitive · progressive | the Duke Aymon *not said here* |  |  |  | day | by the river | vn berry-13.7 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **is** | past | the Duchess |  |  | townsfolk's chamber |  | townsfolk *nmod:poss* | tree rules |
| 4 | **is** | past | townsfolk |  |  |  |  | wont *property* | tree rules |
| 5 | **sit** | to-infinitive | townsfolk *not said here* |  |  | much grief |  |  | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent in grief=Location |
| 6 | **have** | past | townsfolk | no tidings of townsfolk's children |  |  |  |  | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent tiding=Patient |

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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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