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description: For some of the guards had been slain, and some who should have watched were drunken, and the brethren had been surprised but for the loud neighing of the horse. Who acts: some, brethren. A sentence of «Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France» by Alfred John Church, How It Fared With t
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# Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France, How It Fared With the Brethren, sentence 83

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For some of the guards had been slain, and some who should have watched were drunken, and the brethren had been surprised but for the loud neighing of the horse.

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**Who acts:** some, brethren · **What happens:** be, watch, neigh

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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 (some, brethren), 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:pg75339:5:83
# text = For some of the guards had been slain, and some who should have watched were drunken, and the brethren had been surprised but for the loud neighing of the horse.
1	For	for	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
2	some	some	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	8	nsubj	_	_
3	of	of	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	guards	guard	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	nmod	_	_
6	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	8	aux	_	_
7	been	be	AUX	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	8	cop	_	_
8	slain	slain	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	_
10	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	17	cc	_	_
11	some	some	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	17	nsubj	_	_
12	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	15	nsubj:pass	_	_
13	should	should	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	15	aux	_	_
14	have	have	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	15	aux	_	_
15	watched	watch	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	11	acl:relcl	_	_
16	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	17	cop	_	_
17	drunken	drunken	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	24	punct	_	_
19	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	24	cc	_	_
20	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	21	det	_	_
21	brethren	brethren	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	24	nsubj	_	_
22	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	24	aux	_	_
23	been	be	AUX	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	24	cop	_	_
24	surprised	surprised	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	17	conj	_	_
25	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	28	cc	_	_
26	for	for	ADP	IN	_	28	case	_	_
27	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	28	det	_	_
28	loud	loud	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	17	conj	_	_
29	neighing	neigh	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	28	advcl	_	_
30	of	of	ADP	IN	_	32	case	_	_
31	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	32	det	_	_
32	horse	horse	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	29	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
33	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	8	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | past · perfect | some of the guards |  |  |  |  | for slain | tree rules |
| 2 | **watch** | should · perfect · passive |  |  |  |  |  | who *nsubj:pass* | vn assessment-34.1 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme |
| 3 | **is** | past | some |  |  |  |  | drunken *property* | tree rules |
| 4 | **is** | past · perfect | the brethren |  |  |  |  | surprised *property* | tree rules |
| 5 | **be** |  | some *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 6 | **neigh** | gerund | some *not said here* |  |  |  |  | of the horse | vn animal\_sounds-38 «NP V»: agent=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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