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title: So the Duke sent a messenger bearing two messages, to the King one,… — Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of F… · tree and pragmatics
description: So the Duke sent a messenger bearing two messages, to the King one, and another to the Peers. Who acts: Duke, messenger. A sentence of «Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France» by Alfred John Church, How Peace Was Made, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France, How Peace Was Made, sentence 96

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So the Duke sent a messenger bearing two messages, to the King one, and another to the Peers.

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**Who acts:** Duke, messenger · **What happens:** send, bear · **To what, where:** messenger, Peers, two messages

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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 (Duke, messenger), 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:pg75339:12:96
# text = So the Duke sent a messenger bearing two messages, to the King one, and another to the Peers.
1	So	so	ADV	RB	_	4	advmod	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	Duke	Duke	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
4	sent	send	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	messenger	messenger	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obj	_	_
7	bearing	bear	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	6	acl	_	_
8	two	two	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	9	nummod	_	_
9	messages	message	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	7	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
11	to	to	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
12	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
13	King	King	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	9	nmod	_	_
14	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	13	flat	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	_
16	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	17	cc	_	_
17	another	another	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	4	conj	_	_
18	to	to	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
19	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	20	det	_	_
20	Peers	peer	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **send** | past | the Duke | a messenger |  | the Peers |  |  | vn confine-92-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent messenger=Theme to peer=Destination |
| 2 | **bear** | gerund | a messenger *not said here* | two messages |  |  |  | to the King | vn birth-28.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent message=Patient |

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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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