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title: And when Mawgis and his knights came forth from the wood where they… — Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of F… · tree and pragmatics
description: And when Mawgis and his knights came forth from the wood where they lay in ambush, and assailed the King's host on the flank, then the Frenchmen fled, not without great loss, especially at the crossing of the river. Who acts: Mawgis, knights, Frenchmen. A sentence of «Stories of Charlemagne and the 
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# Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France, Of the Treachery of King John, sentence 32

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And when Mawgis and his knights came forth from the wood where they lay in ambush, and assailed the King's host on the flank, then the Frenchmen fled, not without great loss, especially at the crossing of the river.

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**Who acts:** Mawgis, knights, Frenchmen · **What happens:** come, lay, assail, flee, cross · **To what, where:** wood, ambush, host, flank, great loss, crossing

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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 (Mawgis, knights, Frenchmen), 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:pg75339:7:32
# text = And when Mawgis and his knights came forth from the wood where they lay in ambush, and assailed the King's host on the flank, then the Frenchmen fled, not without great loss, especially at the crossing of the river.
1	And	and	CCONJ	CC	_	19	cc	_	_
2	when	when	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	7	advmod	_	_
3	Mawgis	Mawgis	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	7	nsubj	_	_
4	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	6	cc	_	_
5	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	6	nmod:poss	_	_
6	knights	knight	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	conj	_	_
7	came	come	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	19	advcl	_	_
8	forth	forth	ADV	RB	_	7	advmod	_	_
9	from	from	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
10	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
11	wood	wood	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obl	_	_
12	where	where	ADV	WRB	PronType=Rel	14	advmod	_	_
13	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	14	nsubj	_	_
14	lay	lay	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	11	acl:relcl	_	_
15	in	in	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
16	ambush	ambush	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	19	punct	_	_
18	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	19	cc	_	_
19	assailed	assail	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
20	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	21	det	_	_
21	King	King	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	23	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	's	's	PART	POS	_	21	case	_	_
23	host	host	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	obj	_	_
24	on	on	ADP	IN	_	26	case	_	_
25	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	26	det	_	_
26	flank	flank	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	31	punct	_	_
28	then	then	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	31	advmod	_	_
29	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	30	det	_	_
30	Frenchmen	Frenchman	PROPN	NNPS	Number=Plur	31	nsubj	_	_
31	fled	flee	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	19	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
32	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	36	punct	_	_
33	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	36	advmod	_	_
34	without	without	ADP	IN	_	36	case	_	_
35	great	great	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	36	amod	_	_
36	loss	loss	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	31	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
37	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	41	punct	_	_
38	especially	especially	ADV	RB	_	41	advmod	_	_
39	at	at	ADP	IN	_	41	case	_	_
40	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	41	det	_	_
41	crossing	crossing	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	36	nmod	_	_
42	of	of	ADP	IN	_	44	case	_	_
43	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	44	det	_	_
44	river	river	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	41	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
45	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	19	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **come** | past | Mawgis and Mawgis's knights |  |  | the wood |  | forth *property* | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme from wood=Initial\_Location |
| 2 | **lay** | present | knights *= knight* |  |  | ambush |  |  | vn put\_spatial-9.2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent in ambush=Destination |
| 3 | **assail** | past |  | the King's host |  | the flank |  |  | vn attack-60.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent host=Patient |
| 4 | **flee** | past | the Frenchmen | great loss |  | the crossing of the river | then |  | vn escape-51.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme loss=Initial\_Location |
| 5 | **cross** |  |  | the river |  |  |  |  | nom crossing «act transitive»: of=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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