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title: Then the Duke Naymes cried to the King, "This is ill done to send to… — Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of F… · tree and pragmatics
description: Then the Duke Naymes cried to the King, "This is ill done to send to their death two such valiant knights, who might do good service against the heathen. Who acts: Duke Naymes, two such valiant knights, battle. A sentence of «Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France» by Alfred John Chur
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# Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France, How Mawgis Became a Hermit, sentence 20

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Then the Duke Naymes cried to the King, "This is ill done to send to their death two such valiant knights, who might do good service against the heathen.

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**Who acts:** Duke Naymes, two such valiant knights, battle · **What happens:** cry, do, send, die · **To what, where:** King, This, two such valiant knights, death, good service · **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, How Mawgis Became a Hermit. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Duke Naymes, two such valiant knights, battle), 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:pg75339:10:20
# text = Then the Duke Naymes cried to the King, "This is ill done to send to their death two such valiant knights, who might do good service against the heathen.
1	Then	then	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	5	advmod	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
3	Duke	Duke	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	compound	_	_
4	Naymes	Naymes	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	_
5	cried	cry	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
6	to	to	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	King	King	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	5	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
10	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	14	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	This	this	PRON	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	14	nsubj:pass	_	_
12	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	14	aux:pass	_	_
13	ill	ill	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	14	advmod	_	_
14	done	do	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	5	conj	_	_
15	to	to	PART	TO	_	16	mark	_	_
16	send	send	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	14	advcl	_	_
17	to	to	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
18	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	19	nmod:poss	_	_
19	death	death	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	obl	_	_
20	two	two	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	23	nummod	_	_
21	such	such	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	23	amod	_	_
22	valiant	valiant	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	23	amod	_	_
23	knights	knight	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	16	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	27	punct	_	_
25	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	27	nsubj	_	_
26	might	might	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	27	aux	_	_
27	do	do	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	23	acl:relcl	_	_
28	good	good	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	29	amod	_	_
29	service	service	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	27	obj	_	_
30	against	against	ADP	IN	_	32	case	_	_
31	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	32	det	_	_
32	heathen	heathen	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	27	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
33	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **cry** *speech: express* | past | the Duke Naymes |  | the King |  | then |  | vn manner\_speaking-37.3 «NP V PP.recipient»: agent=Agent to king=Recipient |
| 2 | **do** *in a quote* | present · passive |  | This |  |  |  |  | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Eventuality |
| 3 | **send** *in a quote* | to-infinitive |  | two such valiant knights |  | battle's death |  |  | vn confine-92-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent knight=Theme to death=Destination |
| 4 | **do** *in a quote* | might | two such valiant knights | good service |  |  |  | against the heathen | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent service=Eventuality |
| 5 | **die** *in a quote* |  | battle |  |  |  |  |  | nom death «event 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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