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title: But a certain yeoman that was standing by heard the Barons and Rolan… — Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of F… · tree and pragmatics
description: But a certain yeoman that was standing by heard the Barons and Roland talking together, and told the matter to the King. Who acts: certain yeoman, Barons. 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
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# Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France, Of the Craft of Mawgis, sentence 97

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But a certain yeoman that was standing by heard the Barons and Roland talking together, and told the matter to the King.

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**Who acts:** certain yeoman, Barons · **What happens:** stand by, hear, talk, tell · **To what, where:** Barons, matter · **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 (certain yeoman, Barons), 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:pg75339:8:97
# text = But a certain yeoman that was standing by heard the Barons and Roland talking together, and told the matter to the King.
1	But	but	CCONJ	CC	_	9	cc	_	_
2	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
3	certain	certain	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	amod	_	_
4	yeoman	yeoman	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	nsubj	_	_
5	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	7	nsubj	_	_
6	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	7	aux	_	_
7	standing	stand	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	4	acl:relcl	_	_
8	by	by	ADP	IN	_	7	obl	_	_
9	heard	hear	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
10	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
11	Barons	Baron	PROPN	NNPS	Number=Plur	9	obj	_	_
12	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	13	cc	_	_
13	Roland	Roland	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	11	conj	_	_
14	talking	talk	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	11	acl	_	_
15	together	together	ADV	RB	_	14	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	_
17	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	18	cc	_	_
18	told	tell	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	9	conj	_	_
19	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	20	det	_	_
20	matter	matter	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	iobj	_	_
21	to	to	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
22	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	23	det	_	_
23	King	King	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	18	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	9	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **stand by** | past · progressive | a certain yeoman |  |  |  |  |  | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **hear** | past | a certain yeoman | the Barons and Roland |  |  |  |  | vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer baron=Stimulus |
| 3 | **talk** | gerund | the Barons and Roland *not said here* |  |  |  |  | together *property* | vn talk-37.5 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 4 | **tell** *speech: assert* | past | a certain yeoman *not said here* |  | the matter |  |  | to the King | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent matter=Topic to king=Recipient |

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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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