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title: But it chanced that, not long after, Mawgis named Reynaud by name, a… — Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of F… · tree and pragmatics
description: But it chanced that, not long after, Mawgis named Reynaud by name, and the host heard it and said, "This beyond all doubt is Reynaud who slew the King's nephew. Who acts: rider, name, host, doubt. A sentence of «Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France» by Alfred John Church, The Coming
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# Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France, The Coming of Roland, sentence 61

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But it chanced that, not long after, Mawgis named Reynaud by name, and the host heard it and said, "This beyond all doubt is Reynaud who slew the King's nephew.

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**Who acts:** rider, name, host, doubt, Reynaud · **What happens:** chance, name, hear, say, be, slay · **To what, where:** that, Mawgis, rider, This, nephew · **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 (rider, name, host, doubt), 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:pg75339:6:61
# text = But it chanced that, not long after, Mawgis named Reynaud by name, and the host heard it and said, "This beyond all doubt is Reynaud who slew the King's nephew.
1	But	but	CCONJ	CC	_	3	cc	_	_
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	PRON	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	3	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	7	punct	_	_
6	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	7	advmod	_	_
7	long	long	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	3	advmod	_	_
8	after	after	ADV	RB	_	7	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
10	Mawgis	Mawgis	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	11	nsubj:pass	_	_
11	named	name	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	3	parataxis	_	_
12	Reynaud	Reynaud	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	11	xcomp	_	_
13	by	by	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
14	name	name	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	19	punct	_	_
16	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	19	cc	_	_
17	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
18	host	host	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	nsubj	_	_
19	heard	hear	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	parataxis	_	_
20	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	19	obj	_	_
21	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	22	cc	_	_
22	said	say	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	19	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	25	punct	_	_
24	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	25	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	This	this	PRON	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	22	obl	_	_
26	beyond	beyond	ADP	IN	_	30	case	_	_
27	all	all	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	28	det	_	_
28	doubt	doubt	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	30	nsubj	_	_
29	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	30	cop	_	_
30	Reynaud	Reynaud	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	22	obl	_	_
31	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	32	nsubj	_	_
32	slew	slay	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	30	acl:relcl	_	_
33	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	34	det	_	_
34	King	King	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	36	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
35	's	's	PART	POS	_	34	case	_	_
36	nephew	nephew	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	32	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
37	.	.	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 | rider | that |  |  |  | long *property* | vn risk-94-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent that=Pivot |
| 2 | **name** | participle · passive | name | Mawgis |  |  |  | Reynaud *xcomp* | vn appoint-29.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent subject=Theme |
| 3 | **hear** | past | the host | rider |  |  |  |  | vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer it=Stimulus |
| 4 | **say** *speech: assert* | past | the host *not said here* | This |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent |
| 5 | **is** *in a quote* | present | all doubt |  |  |  |  | beyond Reynaud | tree rules |
| 6 | **slay** *in a quote* | past | Reynaud | the King's nephew |  |  |  |  | vn murder-42.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent nephew=Patient |

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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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