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description: And when the shriving was ended, then he begged for time wherein he might make his prayers, nor could Ripus say him nay. Who acts: Richard, Ripus. A sentence of «Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France» by Alfred John Church, Of the Craft of Mawgis, with its dependency tree and the pra
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# Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France, Of the Craft of Mawgis, sentence 124

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And when the shriving was ended, then he begged for time wherein he might make his prayers, nor could Ripus say him nay.

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**Who acts:** Richard, Ripus · **What happens:** shrive, be, beg, make, say, pray · **To what, where:** prayers, Richard · **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 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, Ripus), 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:pg75339:8:124
# text = And when the shriving was ended, then he begged for time wherein he might make his prayers, nor could Ripus say him nay.
1	And	and	CCONJ	CC	_	6	cc	_	_
2	when	when	SCONJ	WRB	_	6	mark	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
4	shriving	shrive	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	6	nsubj	_	_
5	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	6	cop	_	_
6	ended	ended	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
8	then	then	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	10	advmod	_	_
9	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	10	nsubj	_	_
10	begged	beg	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	6	conj	_	_
11	for	for	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
12	time	time	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obl	_	_
13	wherein	wherein	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	16	advmod	_	_
14	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	16	nsubj	_	_
15	might	might	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	16	aux	_	_
16	make	make	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	12	acl:relcl	_	_
17	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	18	nmod:poss	_	_
18	prayers	prayer	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	16	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	23	punct	_	_
20	nor	nor	CCONJ	CC	Polarity=Neg	23	cc	_	_
21	could	could	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	23	aux	_	_
22	Ripus	Ripus	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	23	nsubj	_	_
23	say	say	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	10	conj	_	_
24	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	23	obj	_	_
25	nay	nay	INTJ	UH	_	23	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **shrive** | gerund |  |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **is** | past |  |  |  |  |  | ended *property* | tree rules |
| 3 | **beg** *speech: request* | past | Richard |  |  |  | then; time |  | vn beg-58.2-1-1 «NP V PP.Topic»: agent=Agent |
| 4 | **make** | might | Richard | Richard's prayers |  |  |  | wherein *property* | vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent prayer=Product |
| 5 | **say** *speech: assert* | could | Ripus | Richard |  |  |  |  | vn pronounce-29.3.1 «NP V NP NP»: agent=Agent he=Theme nay=Manner |
| 6 | **pray** |  | Richard |  |  |  |  |  | nom prayer «act intransitive»: poss=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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