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title: The wife of Reynaud also was set against the journey, telling him of… — Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of F… · tree and pragmatics
description: The wife of Reynaud also was set against the journey, telling him of a terrible dream that she had dreamed. " Who acts: wife. 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 eve
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# Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France, Of the Treachery of King John, sentence 61

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The wife of Reynaud also was set against the journey, telling him of a terrible dream that she had dreamed. "

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**Who acts:** wife · **What happens:** set, tell, dream · **To what, where:** wife, journey, Reynaud · **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, 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 (wife), 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:pg75339:7:61
# text = The wife of Reynaud also was set against the journey, telling him of a terrible dream that she had dreamed. "
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	wife	wife	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	nsubj:pass	_	_
3	of	of	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
4	Reynaud	Reynaud	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	nmod	_	_
5	also	also	ADV	RB	_	7	advmod	_	_
6	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	7	aux:pass	_	_
7	set	set	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
8	against	against	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
9	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
10	journey	journey	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
12	telling	tell	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	7	parataxis	_	_
13	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	12	iobj	_	_
14	of	of	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
15	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
16	terrible	terrible	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	17	amod	_	_
17	dream	dream	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	obl	_	_
18	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	21	mark	_	_
19	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	21	nsubj	_	_
20	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	21	aux	_	_
21	dreamed	dream	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	12	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	7	punct	_	_
23	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	7	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **set** | past · passive |  | the wife of Reynaud |  | the journey |  |  | vn put-9.1-2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: subject=Theme against journey=Destination |
| 2 | **tell** *speech: assert* | gerund |  |  | Reynaud |  |  | of a terrible dream | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent he=Recipient |
| 3 | **dream** | past · perfect | wife |  |  |  |  |  | vn cognize-85 «NP V PP.topic»: 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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