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title: So they came safe all of them to Dordogne, where dwelt their mother… — Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of F… · tree and pragmatics
description: So they came safe all of them to Dordogne, where dwelt their mother the Duchess. Who acts: horses. 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 22

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So they came safe all of them to Dordogne, where dwelt their mother the Duchess.

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**Who acts:** horses · **What happens:** come, dwell · **To what, where:** all, Dordogne, mother

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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 (horses), 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:pg75339:5:22
# text = So they came safe all of them to Dordogne, where dwelt their mother the Duchess.
1	So	so	ADV	RB	_	3	advmod	_	_
2	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
3	came	come	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	safe	safe	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	amod	_	_
5	all	all	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	3	obl	_	_
6	of	of	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
7	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	5	nmod	_	_
8	to	to	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
9	Dordogne	Dordogne	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
11	where	where	ADV	WRB	PronType=Rel	12	advmod	_	_
12	dwelt	dwell	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	9	acl	_	_
13	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	14	nmod:poss	_	_
14	mother	mother	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	obj	_	_
15	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
16	Duchess	Duchess	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	12	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **come** | past | horses *= horse* | all of knights |  | Dordogne |  |  | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme to dordogne=Initial\_Location |
| 2 | **dwell** | participle |  | horses's mother |  |  |  | the Duchess *obj* | 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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