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title: And when I asked them why they dealt so hardly with me, they answere… — Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of F… · tree and pragmatics
description: And when I asked them why they dealt so hardly with me, they answered that they were in such sore need at their castle of Montalban that they could not choose but rob all wayfarers. Who acts: I, armies. A sentence of «Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France» by Alfred John Church, Of t
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# Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France, Of the Craft of Mawgis, sentence 74

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And when I asked them why they dealt so hardly with me, they answered that they were in such sore need at their castle of Montalban that they could not choose but rob all wayfarers.

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**Who acts:** I, armies · **What happens:** ask, deal, answer, be, not choose, rob · **To what, where:** armies, such sore, wayfarers · **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 (I, armies), 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:pg75339:8:74
# text = And when I asked them why they dealt so hardly with me, they answered that they were in such sore need at their castle of Montalban that they could not choose but rob all wayfarers.
1	And	and	CCONJ	CC	_	8	cc	_	_
2	when	when	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	4	advmod	_	_
3	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	4	nsubj	_	_
4	asked	ask	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	8	advcl	_	_
5	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	4	obj	_	_
6	why	why	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	8	advmod	_	_
7	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	8	nsubj	_	_
8	dealt	deal	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
9	so	so	ADV	RB	_	10	advmod	_	_
10	hardly	hardly	ADV	RB	_	8	advmod	_	_
11	with	with	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
12	me	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	8	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
14	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	15	nsubj	_	_
15	answered	answer	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	8	parataxis	_	_
16	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	22	mark	_	_
17	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	22	nsubj	_	_
18	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	22	cop	_	_
19	in	in	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
20	such	such	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	21	amod	_	_
21	sore	sore	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	22	obl	_	_
22	need	need	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	15	ccomp	_	_
23	at	at	ADP	IN	_	25	case	_	_
24	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	25	nmod:poss	_	_
25	castle	castle	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	obl	_	_
26	of	of	ADP	IN	_	27	case	_	_
27	Montalban	Montalban	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	25	nmod	_	_
28	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	32	mark	_	_
29	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	32	nsubj	_	_
30	could	could	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	32	aux	_	_
31	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	32	advmod	_	_
32	choose	choose	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	22	advcl	_	_
33	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	34	cc	_	_
34	rob	rob	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	32	conj	_	_
35	all	all	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	36	det	_	_
36	wayfarers	wayfarer	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	34	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
37	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	8	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **ask** *speech: ask* | past | I |  | armies *= army* |  |  |  | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent they=Recipient |
| 2 | **deal** | past | armies *= army* |  |  |  |  | with me; hardly *property* | vn cope-83 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent with i=Theme |
| 3 | **answer** *speech: assert* | past | armies *= army* |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 4 | **is** | past | armies *= army* |  |  | such sore |  | at armies's castle of Montalban; need *property* | tree rules |
| 5 | **not** **choose** | could | armies *= army* |  |  |  |  |  | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
| 6 | **rob** | infinitive | armies *= army* *not said here* | all wayfarers |  |  |  |  | vn cheat-10.6.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent wayfarer=Source |

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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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