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# Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France, How It Fared With the Brethren, sentence 122

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Then she looked about her, and knew her other sons also, and took them one by one in her arms, both rejoicing and lamenting.

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**Who acts:** Duchess · **What happens:** look, know, take, rejoice, lament · **To what, where:** other sons, sons

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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 (Duchess), 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:pg75339:5:122
# text = Then she looked about her, and knew her other sons also, and took them one by one in her arms, both rejoicing and lamenting.
1	Then	then	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	3	advmod	_	_
2	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
3	looked	look	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	about	about	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
5	her	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	8	punct	_	_
7	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	8	cc	_	_
8	knew	know	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	_
9	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	11	nmod:poss	_	_
10	other	other	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	11	amod	_	_
11	sons	son	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	8	obj	_	_
12	also	also	ADV	RB	_	8	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
14	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	15	cc	_	_
15	took	take	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	_
16	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	15	obj	_	_
17	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	15	obj	_	_
18	by	by	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
19	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	17	nmod	_	_
20	in	in	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
21	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	22	nmod:poss	_	_
22	arms	arm	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	19	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	25	punct	_	_
24	both	both	CCONJ	CC	_	25	cc:preconj	_	_
25	rejoicing	rejoice	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	15	advcl	_	_
26	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	27	cc	_	_
27	lamenting	lament	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	25	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **look** | past | Duchess |  |  |  | then | about mother | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent about she=Theme |
| 2 | **know** | past | Duchess *not said here* | Duchess's other sons |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer son=Stimulus |
| 3 | **take** | past | Duchess *not said here* | sons *= son* |  |  |  | one *obj* | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP ADVP»: agent=Instrument they=Theme one=Destination |
| 4 | **rejoice** | gerund | Duchess *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn marvel-31.3 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer |
| 5 | **lament** | gerund | Duchess *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn admire-31.2 «NP V that S»: agent=Experiencer |

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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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