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title: So he commanded his Barons that they should make ready their baggage… — Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of F… · tree and pragmatics
description: So he commanded his Barons that they should make ready their baggage and march with all the haste they could on to Ardennes, and this they did. Who acts: King, Barons, this. A sentence of «Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France» by Alfred John Church, How Peace Was Made, with its depe
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# Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France, How Peace Was Made, sentence 18

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So he commanded his Barons that they should make ready their baggage and march with all the haste they could on to Ardennes, and this they did.

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**Who acts:** King, Barons, this · **What happens:** command, make, do · **To what, where:** Barons, ready baggage · **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 Peace Was Made. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (King, Barons, this), 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:pg75339:12:18
# text = So he commanded his Barons that they should make ready their baggage and march with all the haste they could on to Ardennes, and this they did.
1	So	so	ADV	RB	_	3	advmod	_	_
2	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
3	commanded	command	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	5	nmod:poss	_	_
5	Barons	baron	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	obj	_	_
6	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	9	mark	_	_
7	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	9	nsubj	_	_
8	should	should	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	9	aux	_	_
9	make	make	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	3	advcl	_	_
10	ready	ready	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	12	amod	_	_
11	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	12	nmod:poss	_	_
12	baggage	baggage	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obj	_	_
13	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	14	cc	_	_
14	march	march	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	conj	_	_
15	with	with	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
16	all	all	DET	PDT	PronType=Tot	18	det:predet	_	_
17	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
18	haste	haste	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obl	_	_
19	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	21	nsubj	_	_
20	could	could	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	21	aux	_	_
21	on	on	ADV	RB	_	18	acl:relcl	_	_
22	to	to	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
23	Ardennes	Ardennes	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	21	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	28	punct	_	_
25	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	28	cc	_	_
26	this	this	PRON	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	28	nsubj	_	_
27	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	28	nsubj	_	_
28	did	do	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
29	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **command** | past | King | King's Barons |  |  |  |  | vn supervision-95.2.2-1 «NP V NP.predicate»: agent=Agent baron=Eventuality |
| 2 | **make** | should | Barons *= baron* | Barons's ready baggage and march |  |  |  | with all haste | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset baggage=Product |
| 3 | **do** | past | this |  |  |  |  | Barons *= baron* *nsubj* | vn act-114-1 «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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