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description: Now it chanced that a yeoman of Gascony, being in Paris, heard the proclamation, and going back to his own country told the matter to Reynaud and Mawgis. Who acts: proclamation, yeoman, going. A sentence of «Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France» by Alfred John Church, The Coming of 
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# Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France, The Coming of Roland, sentence 30

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Now it chanced that a yeoman of Gascony, being in Paris, heard the proclamation, and going back to his own country told the matter to Reynaud and Mawgis.

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**Who acts:** proclamation, yeoman, going · **What happens:** chance, be, hear, go back, tell · **To what, where:** Paris, proclamation, matter · **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 (proclamation, yeoman, going), 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:pg75339:6:30
# text = Now it chanced that a yeoman of Gascony, being in Paris, heard the proclamation, and going back to his own country told the matter to Reynaud and Mawgis.
1	Now	now	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	3	advmod	_	_
2	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
3	chanced	chance	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	14	mark	_	_
5	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	yeoman	yeoman	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	nsubj	_	_
7	of	of	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
8	Gascony	Gascony	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	6	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
10	being	be	AUX	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	12	cop	_	_
11	in	in	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
12	Paris	Paris	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	6	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	6	punct	_	_
14	heard	hear	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	advcl	_	_
15	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
16	proclamation	proclamation	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	25	punct	_	_
18	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	25	cc	_	_
19	going	go	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	25	csubj	_	_
20	back	back	ADV	RB	_	19	advmod	_	_
21	to	to	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	_
22	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	24	nmod:poss	_	_
23	own	own	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	24	amod	_	_
24	country	country	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	obl	_	_
25	told	tell	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	_
26	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	27	det	_	_
27	matter	matter	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	iobj	_	_
28	to	to	ADP	IN	_	29	case	_	_
29	Reynaud	Reynaud	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	25	obl	_	_
30	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	31	cc	_	_
31	Mawgis	Mawgis	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	29	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
32	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **chance** | past | proclamation |  |  |  | now |  | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **is** | gerund |  |  |  | Paris |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **hear** | past | a yeoman of Gascony | the proclamation |  |  |  |  | vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer proclamation=Stimulus |
| 4 | **go back** | gerund |  |  |  |  |  | to yeoman's own country *result* | vn convert-26.6.2 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Patient to country=Result |
| 5 | **tell** *speech: assert* | past | going |  | the matter |  |  | to Reynaud and Mawgis | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent matter=Topic to reynaud=Recipient |

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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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