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# Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France, Of the Treachery of King John, sentence 114

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Then Mawgis lighted down from him, and greeted the brethren most lovingly.

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**What happens:** light down, greet · **To what, where:** brethren

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This is a sentence of «Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France» by Alfred John Church, Of the Treachery of King John. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: 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:pg75339:7:114
# text = Then Mawgis lighted down from him, and greeted the brethren most lovingly.
1	Then	then	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	3	advmod	_	_
2	Mawgis	Mawgis	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	compound	_	_
3	lighted	light	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
4	down	down	ADP	RP	_	3	compound:prt	_	_
5	from	from	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
6	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	9	punct	_	_
8	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	9	cc	_	_
9	greeted	greet	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	parataxis	_	_
10	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
11	brethren	brethren	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obj	_	_
12	most	most	ADV	RBS	Degree=Sup	13	advmod	_	_
13	lovingly	lovingly	ADV	RB	_	9	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **light down** | participle |  |  |  |  | then | from Ogier; Mawgis *compound* | vn preparing-26.3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent from he=Material |
| 2 | **greet** *speech: greet* | past |  | the brethren |  |  |  | lovingly *property* | vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent brethren=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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