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title: To the Duchess, when she was nigh distracted at the departure of her… — Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of F… · tree and pragmatics
description: To the Duchess, when she was nigh distracted at the departure of her children, he said, "Be not troubled over much; we shall see them come again in great prosperity and honour." Who acts: Aymon, we, children. A sentence of «Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France» by Alfred John Church
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# Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France, How It Fared With the Brethren, sentence 148

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To the Duchess, when she was nigh distracted at the departure of her children, he said, "Be not troubled over much; we shall see them come again in great prosperity and honour."

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**Who acts:** Aymon, we, children · **What happens:** distract, say, not trouble, see, come, depart · **To what, where:** Duchess, departure, children, great prosperity · **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 (Aymon, we, children), 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:pg75339:5:148
# text = To the Duchess, when she was nigh distracted at the departure of her children, he said, "Be not troubled over much; we shall see them come again in great prosperity and honour."
1	To	to	ADP	IN	_	3	case	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	Duchess	Duchess	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	18	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	3	punct	_	_
5	when	when	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	9	advmod	_	_
6	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	9	nsubj	_	_
7	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	9	aux:pass	_	_
8	nigh	nigh	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	9	amod	_	_
9	distracted	distract	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	3	acl	_	_
10	at	at	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
11	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
12	departure	departure	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obl	_	_
13	of	of	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
14	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	15	nmod:poss	_	_
15	children	child	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	12	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	3	punct	_	_
17	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	18	nsubj	_	_
18	said	say	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	23	punct	_	_
20	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	23	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	Be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	23	aux:pass	_	_
22	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	23	advmod	_	_
23	troubled	trouble	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	18	ccomp	_	_
24	over	over	ADV	RB	_	25	advmod	_	_
25	much	much	ADV	RB	_	23	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	29	punct	_	_
27	we	we	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs	29	nsubj	_	_
28	shall	shall	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	29	aux	_	_
29	see	see	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	18	ccomp	_	_
30	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	29	obj	_	_
31	come	come	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	29	xcomp	_	_
32	again	again	ADV	RB	_	31	advmod	_	_
33	in	in	ADP	IN	_	35	case	_	_
34	great	great	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	35	amod	_	_
35	prosperity	prosperity	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	31	obl	_	_
36	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	37	cc	_	_
37	honour	honour	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	35	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
38	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	29	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
39	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	29	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **distract** | past · passive |  | Duchess |  | the departure of Duchess's children |  |  | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: subject=Experiencer |
| 2 | **say** *speech: assert* | past | Aymon |  | the Duchess |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V PP.recipient S-Quote»: agent=Agent to duchess=Recipient clause=Topic |
| 3 | **not** **trouble** *in a quote* | infinitive · passive |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle» |
| 4 | **see** *in a quote* | shall | we | children *= child* |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 5 | **come** *in a quote* | infinitive | children *= child* *not said here* |  |  | great prosperity and honour | again |  | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in prosperity=Location |
| 6 | **depart** |  | Duchess's children |  |  |  |  |  | nom departure «act intransitive»: of=agent |

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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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