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description: When King John saw that this counsel pleased the greater part of his barons, he was much troubled in mind, and wept for grief and shame. Who acts: John, counsel. A sentence of «Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France» by Alfred John Church, Of the Treachery of King John, with its depen
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# Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France, Of the Treachery of King John, sentence 47

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When King John saw that this counsel pleased the greater part of his barons, he was much troubled in mind, and wept for grief and shame.

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**Who acts:** John, counsel · **What happens:** see, be, weep · **To what, where:** greater part, mind

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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 (John, counsel), 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:pg75339:7:47
# text = When King John saw that this counsel pleased the greater part of his barons, he was much troubled in mind, and wept for grief and shame.
1	When	when	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	4	advmod	_	_
2	King	King	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	nmod:desc	_	_
3	John	John	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
4	saw	see	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	24	advcl	_	_
5	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	8	mark	_	_
6	this	this	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	7	det	_	_
7	counsel	counsel	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	nsubj	_	_
8	pleased	pleased	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	ccomp	_	_
9	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
10	greater	great	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	11	amod	_	_
11	part	part	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obj	_	_
12	of	of	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
13	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	14	nmod:poss	_	_
14	barons	baron	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	11	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	4	punct	_	_
16	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	19	nsubj	_	_
17	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	19	cop	_	_
18	much	much	ADV	RB	_	19	advmod	_	_
19	troubled	troubled	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	parataxis	_	_
20	in	in	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
21	mind	mind	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	24	punct	_	_
23	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	24	cc	_	_
24	wept	weep	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
25	for	for	ADP	IN	_	26	case	_	_
26	grief	grief	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	obl	_	_
27	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	28	cc	_	_
28	shame	shame	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	26	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
29	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	24	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **see** | past | John  King | the greater part of King's barons |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer part=Stimulus |
| 2 | **is** | past | counsel |  |  | mind |  | troubled *property* | tree rules |
| 3 | **weep** | past |  |  |  |  |  | for grief and shame | vn breathe-40.1.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent |

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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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