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title: When they came to Paris some ill fellow saw them, and cried in a lou… — Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of F… · tree and pragmatics
description: When they came to Paris some ill fellow saw them, and cried in a loud voice, "This is Reynaud, son of Aymon," at which saying many ran together. Who acts: Reynaud, ill fellow, This, many. A sentence of «Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France» by Alfred John Church, The Coming of Rolan
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# Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France, The Coming of Roland, sentence 52

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When they came to Paris some ill fellow saw them, and cried in a loud voice, "This is Reynaud, son of Aymon," at which saying many ran together.

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**Who acts:** Reynaud, ill fellow, This, many · **What happens:** come, see, cry, be, say, run · **To what, where:** Paris, Reynaud, loud voice · **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, ill fellow, This, many), 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:pg75339:6:52
# text = When they came to Paris some ill fellow saw them, and cried in a loud voice, "This is Reynaud, son of Aymon," at which saying many ran together.
1	When	when	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	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	9	advcl	_	_
4	to	to	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
5	Paris	Paris	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	_
6	some	some	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	8	det	_	_
7	ill	ill	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	amod	_	_
8	fellow	fellow	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	nsubj	_	_
9	saw	see	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
10	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	9	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
12	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	13	cc	_	_
13	cried	cry	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	9	conj	_	_
14	in	in	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
15	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
16	loud	loud	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	17	amod	_	_
17	voice	voice	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	22	punct	_	_
19	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	22	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	This	this	PRON	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	22	nsubj	_	_
21	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	22	cop	_	_
22	Reynaud	Reynaud	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	13	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	24	punct	_	_
24	son	son	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	appos	_	_
25	of	of	ADP	IN	_	26	case	_	_
26	Aymon	Aymon	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	24	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	31	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	31	punct	_	_
29	at	at	ADP	IN	_	30	case	_	_
30	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	31	obl	_	_
31	saying	say	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	13	advcl	_	_
32	many	many	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	33	nsubj	_	_
33	ran	run	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	31	ccomp	_	_
34	together	together	ADV	RB	_	33	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
35	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	9	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **come** | past | Reynaud |  |  | Paris |  |  | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme to paris=Initial\_Location |
| 2 | **see** | past | some ill fellow | Reynaud |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer they=Stimulus |
| 3 | **cry** *speech: express* | past | some ill fellow *not said here* |  |  | a loud voice |  |  | vn sound\_emission-43.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in voice=Location |
| 4 | **is a** *in a quote* | present | This | Reynaud |  |  |  | son of Aymon *appos* | tree rules |
| 5 | **say** *speech: assert* | gerund | some ill fellow *not said here* |  |  |  |  | which *obl* | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 6 | **run** | past | many |  |  |  |  | together *property* | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |

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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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