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description: Nevertheless for peace' sake he did as he was bid, and giving his hand to the dame, led her to the table. Who acts: King. A sentence of «Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France» by Alfred John Church, How Ralph Entertained the King, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every 
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# Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France, How Ralph Entertained the King, sentence 42

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Nevertheless for peace' sake he did as he was bid, and giving his hand to the dame, led her to the table.

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**Who acts:** King · **What happens:** do, bid, give, lead · **To what, where:** sake, King, hand, dame, churl, table

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This is a sentence of «Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France» by Alfred John Church, How Ralph Entertained the King. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (King), 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:pg75339:14:42
# text = Nevertheless for peace' sake he did as he was bid, and giving his hand to the dame, led her to the table.
1	Nevertheless	nevertheless	ADV	RB	_	21	advmod	_	_
2	for	for	ADP	IN	_	3	case	_	_
3	peace	peace	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	'	'	PUNCT	``	_	5	punct	_	_
5	sake	sake	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	conj	_	_
6	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	7	nsubj	_	_
7	did	do	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	acl:relcl	_	_
8	as	as	SCONJ	IN	_	11	mark	_	_
9	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	11	nsubj	_	_
10	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	11	aux:pass	_	_
11	bid	bid	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	7	ccomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
13	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	14	cc	_	_
14	giving	give	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	11	advcl	_	_
15	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	16	nmod:poss	_	_
16	hand	hand	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	obj	_	_
17	to	to	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
18	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	19	det	_	_
19	dame	dame	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	3	punct	_	_
21	led	lead	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
22	her	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	21	obj	_	_
23	to	to	ADP	IN	_	25	case	_	_
24	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	25	det	_	_
25	table	table	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	21	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **do** | past | King | sake *not said here* |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **bid** | past · passive |  | King |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **give** | gerund |  | King's hand | the dame |  |  |  | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent hand=Theme to dame=Recipient |
| 4 | **lead** | past |  | churl |  | the table |  | for peace and sake; nevertheless *property* | vn accompany-51.7 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent she=Theme to table=Destination |

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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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