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title: So the King gave him his armour and arms, and sixty squires of good… — Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of F… · tree and pragmatics
description: So the King gave him his armour and arms, and sixty squires of good degree to be his company. Who acts: King. A sentence of «Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France» by Alfred John Church, How Ralph Went to Court, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France, How Ralph Went to Court, sentence 85

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So the King gave him his armour and arms, and sixty squires of good degree to be his company.

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**Who acts:** King · **What happens:** give, be · **To what, where:** armour, Knight, company

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This is a sentence of «Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France» by Alfred John Church, How Ralph Went to Court. 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:pg75339:15:85
# text = So the King gave him his armour and arms, and sixty squires of good degree to be his company.
1	So	so	ADV	RB	_	4	advmod	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	King	King	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
4	gave	give	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	4	iobj	_	_
6	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	7	nmod:poss	_	_
7	armour	armour	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obj	_	_
8	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	9	cc	_	_
9	arms	arm	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	7	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
11	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	13	cc	_	_
12	sixty	sixty	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	13	nummod	_	_
13	squires	squire	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	obl	_	_
14	of	of	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
15	good	good	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	16	amod	_	_
16	degree	degree	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	nmod	_	_
17	to	to	PART	TO	_	20	mark	_	_
18	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	20	cop	_	_
19	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	20	nmod:poss	_	_
20	company	company	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	advcl	_	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 | **give** | past | the King | Knight's armour and arms | Knight |  |  | sixty squires of good degree *obl* | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent he=Recipient armour=Theme |
| 2 | **is a** | to-infinitive | the King *not said here* | Knight's company |  |  |  | Knight *nmod:poss* | tree rules |

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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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