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title: This done, he conveyed himself with more speed than if he had ridden… — Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of F… · tree and pragmatics
description: This done, he conveyed himself with more speed than if he had ridden the swiftest of horses to the King's camp, for he was a magician, as has been said. Who acts: Mawgis. A sentence of «Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France» by Alfred John Church, Of the Craft of Mawgis, with its dep
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# Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France, Of the Craft of Mawgis, sentence 64

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This done, he conveyed himself with more speed than if he had ridden the swiftest of horses to the King's camp, for he was a magician, as has been said.

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**Who acts:** Mawgis · **What happens:** do, convey, ride, be, say · **To what, where:** This, Mawgis, camp · **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 (Mawgis), 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:pg75339:8:64
# text = This done, he conveyed himself with more speed than if he had ridden the swiftest of horses to the King's camp, for he was a magician, as has been said.
1	This	this	PRON	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	2	nsubj:pass	_	_
2	done	do	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	5	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	2	punct	_	_
4	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	5	nsubj	_	_
5	conveyed	convey	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
6	himself	himself	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs|Reflex=Yes	5	obj	_	_
7	with	with	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
8	more	more	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	9	amod	_	_
9	speed	speed	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obl	_	_
10	than	than	SCONJ	IN	_	14	mark	_	_
11	if	if	SCONJ	IN	_	14	mark	_	_
12	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	14	nsubj	_	_
13	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	14	aux	_	_
14	ridden	ride	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	5	advcl	_	_
15	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
16	swiftest	swift	ADJ	JJS	Degree=Sup	14	obl:agent	_	_
17	of	of	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
18	horses	horse	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	16	obl	_	_
19	to	to	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
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	camp	camp	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	29	punct	_	_
25	for	for	ADP	IN	_	29	case	_	_
26	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	29	nsubj	_	_
27	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	29	cop	_	_
28	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	29	det	_	_
29	magician	magician	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
30	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	34	punct	_	_
31	as	as	SCONJ	IN	_	34	mark	_	_
32	has	have	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	34	aux	_	_
33	been	be	AUX	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	34	aux:pass	_	_
34	said	say	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	14	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
35	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **do** | participle · passive |  | This |  |  |  |  | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Eventuality |
| 2 | **convey** | past | Mawgis | Mawgis |  |  |  | with more speed | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent himself=Topic |
| 3 | **ride** *a condition, not said to happen* | past · perfect | Mawgis |  |  | the King's camp |  |  | vn nonvehicle-51.4.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent to camp=Trajectory |
| 4 | **is** | past | Mawgis |  |  |  |  | for a magician | tree rules |
| 5 | **say** *speech: assert* | present · perfect · passive | Mawgis *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S» |

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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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