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title: Only he suffered that a priest should shrive him, to whom indeed Ric… — Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of F… · tree and pragmatics
description: Only he suffered that a priest should shrive him, to whom indeed Richard confessed more sins than he had committed in his whole life, so gaining a little time, for he yet looked for help. Who acts: Richard, priest. A sentence of «Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France» by Alfred John 
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# Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France, Of the Craft of Mawgis, sentence 123

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Only he suffered that a priest should shrive him, to whom indeed Richard confessed more sins than he had committed in his whole life, so gaining a little time, for he yet looked for help.

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**Who acts:** Richard, priest · **What happens:** suffer, shrive, confess, commit, gain, look · **To what, where:** Richard, more sins, whole life

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This is a sentence of «Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France» by Alfred John Church, Of the Craft of Mawgis. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Richard, priest), 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:pg75339:8:123
# text = Only he suffered that a priest should shrive him, to whom indeed Richard confessed more sins than he had committed in his whole life, so gaining a little time, for he yet looked for help.
1	Only	only	ADV	RB	_	3	advmod	_	_
2	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
3	suffered	suffer	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	8	mark	_	_
5	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	priest	priest	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	nsubj	_	_
7	should	should	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	8	aux	_	_
8	shrive	shrive	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	3	ccomp	_	_
9	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	8	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
11	to	to	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
12	whom	whom	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	8	advcl	_	_
13	indeed	indeed	ADV	RB	_	15	advmod	_	_
14	Richard	Richard	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	15	nsubj	_	_
15	confessed	confess	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	12	acl:relcl	_	_
16	more	more	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	17	amod	_	_
17	sins	sin	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	15	obj	_	_
18	than	than	SCONJ	IN	_	21	mark	_	_
19	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|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	committed	commit	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	15	advcl	_	_
22	in	in	ADP	IN	_	25	case	_	_
23	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	25	nmod:poss	_	_
24	whole	whole	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	25	amod	_	_
25	life	life	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	28	punct	_	_
27	so	so	ADV	RB	_	28	advmod	_	_
28	gaining	gain	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	3	advcl	_	_
29	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	31	det	_	_
30	little	little	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	31	amod	_	_
31	time	time	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	28	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
32	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	36	punct	_	_
33	for	for	SCONJ	IN	_	36	mark	_	_
34	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	36	nsubj	_	_
35	yet	yet	ADV	RB	_	36	advmod	_	_
36	looked	look	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	_
37	for	for	ADP	IN	_	38	case	_	_
38	help	help	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	36	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
39	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **suffer** | past | Richard |  |  |  |  |  | vn admire-31.2 «NP V that S»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus |
| 2 | **shrive** | should | a priest | Richard |  |  |  | whom *advcl* | tree rules |
| 3 | **confess** | past | Richard | more sins |  |  |  | indeed *property* | vn confess-37.10 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent sin=Topic |
| 4 | **commit** | past · perfect | Richard |  |  | Richard's whole life |  |  | vn confine-92-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent in life=Destination |
| 5 | **gain** | gerund | Richard *not said here* |  |  |  | time |  | vn calibratable\_cos-45.6.1-1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute |
| 6 | **look** | past | Richard |  |  |  | yet | for help | vn rummage-35.5 «NP V PP.location PP.theme»: agent=Agent for help=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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