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title: After a while they all felt a great desire to sleep. — Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of F… · tree and pragmatics
description: After a while they all felt a great desire to sleep. Who acts: Peers. A sentence of «Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France» by Alfred John Church, More Deeds of Mawgis, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France, More Deeds of Mawgis, sentence 44

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After a while they all felt a great desire to sleep.

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**Who acts:** Peers · **What happens:** feel, sleep · **To what, where:** great desire

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This is a sentence of «Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France» by Alfred John Church, More Deeds 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 (Peers), 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:pg75339:9:44
# text = After a while they all felt a great desire to sleep.
1	After	after	ADP	IN	_	3	case	_	_
2	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	while	while	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obl	_	_
4	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	6	nsubj	_	_
5	all	all	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	4	det	_	_
6	felt	feel	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
7	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
8	great	great	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	9	amod	_	_
9	desire	desire	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obj	_	_
10	to	to	PART	TO	_	11	mark	_	_
11	sleep	sleep	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	9	acl	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **feel** | past | Peers *= peer* | a great desire |  |  | while |  | vn hunt-35.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent desire=Theme |
| 2 | **sleep** | to-infinitive | Peers *= peer* *not said here* | a great desire *not said here* |  |  |  |  | vn snooze-40.4-1 «NP V»: agent=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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