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title: Reynaud and his brothers, with Mawgis their cousin, came in their ri… — Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of F… · tree and pragmatics
description: Reynaud and his brothers, with Mawgis their cousin, came in their riding to Poictiers, where it was told them that John, King of Gascony was hard pressed by the Saracens. Who acts: Reynaud, Saracens. A sentence of «Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France» by Alfred John Church, The Com
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# Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France, The Coming of Roland, sentence 1

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Reynaud and his brothers, with Mawgis their cousin, came in their riding to Poictiers, where it was told them that John, King of Gascony was hard pressed by the Saracens.

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**Who acts:** Reynaud, Saracens · **What happens:** come, tell, press, ride · **To what, where:** Poictiers, riding, Reynaud, John · **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, The Coming of Roland. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Reynaud, Saracens), 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:pg75339:6:1
# text = Reynaud and his brothers, with Mawgis their cousin, came in their riding to Poictiers, where it was told them that John, King of Gascony was hard pressed by the Saracens.
1	Reynaud	Reynaud	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	11	nsubj	_	_
2	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	4	cc	_	_
3	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	4	nmod:poss	_	_
4	brothers	brother	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	1	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	9	punct	_	_
6	with	with	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
7	Mawgis	Mawgis	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	9	compound	_	_
8	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	9	nmod:poss	_	_
9	cousin	cousin	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	appos	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	1	punct	_	_
11	came	come	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
12	in	in	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
13	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	14	nmod:poss	_	_
14	riding	riding	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	obl	_	_
15	to	to	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
16	Poictiers	Poictier	PROPN	NNPS	Number=Plur	11	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	21	punct	_	_
18	where	where	ADV	WRB	PronType=Rel	21	advmod	_	_
19	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	21	nsubj:pass	_	_
20	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	21	aux:pass	_	_
21	told	tell	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	11	conj	_	_
22	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	21	iobj	_	_
23	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	31	mark	_	_
24	John	John	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	31	nsubj:pass	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	24	punct	_	_
26	King	King	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	24	flat	_	_
27	of	of	ADP	IN	_	28	case	_	_
28	Gascony	Gascony	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	24	nmod	_	_
29	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	31	aux:pass	_	_
30	hard	hard	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	31	advmod	_	_
31	pressed	press	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	21	ccomp	_	_
32	by	by	ADP	IN	_	34	case	_	_
33	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	34	det	_	_
34	Saracens	saracen	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	31	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
35	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	11	punct	_	_
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## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **come** | past | Reynaud and his brothers |  | Poictiers | Reynaud's riding |  |  | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme to poictier=Initial\_Location |
| 2 | **tell** *speech: assert* | past · passive |  | riding | Reynaud |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **press** | past · passive | the Saracens | John of Gascony |  |  |  | hard *property* | vn push-12-1-1 «NP V NP ADJP-Result»: agent=Agent subject=Result |
| 4 | **ride** |  | Reynaud |  |  |  |  |  | nom riding «act transitive»: poss=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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