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title: [1] The real Turpin was, it would seem, Tilpin, Archbishop of Rheims… — Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of F… · tree and pragmatics
description: [1] The real Turpin was, it would seem, Tilpin, Archbishop of Rheims from 754 to 794. Who acts: real Turpin. A sentence of «Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France» by Alfred John Church, Of the Treachery of King John, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France, Of the Treachery of King John, sentence 23

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\[1\] The real Turpin was, it would seem, Tilpin, Archbishop of Rheims from 754 to 794.

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**Who acts:** real Turpin · **What happens:** be · **To what, where:** 754

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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: who acts (real Turpin), 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:pg75339:7:23
# text = [1] The real Turpin was, it would seem, Tilpin, Archbishop of Rheims from 754 to 794.
1	[	[	PUNCT	-LRB-	_	2	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	1	1	NUM	LS	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	11	discourse	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	]	]	PUNCT	-RRB-	_	2	punct	_	_
4	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
5	real	real	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	amod	_	_
6	Turpin	Turpin	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	11	nsubj	_	_
7	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	11	cop	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
9	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	11	nsubj	_	_
10	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	11	aux	_	_
11	seem	seem	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
13	Tilpin	Tilpin	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	11	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
15	Archbishop	Archbishop	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	13	appos	_	_
16	of	of	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
17	Rheims	Rheims	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	15	nmod	_	_
18	from	from	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
19	754	754	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	11	obl	_	_
20	to	to	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
21	794	794	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	19	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	11	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | would · past | the real Turpin |  |  | 754 to 794 |  | Tilpin *obl*; 1 *discourse*; it *nsubj*; seem *property* | tree rules |

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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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