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title: When the men of France saw this, they made all haste to go to the he… — Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of F… · tree and pragmatics
description: When the men of France saw this, they made all haste to go to the help of Oliver, Roland first of all, and Richard of Normandy, and Guy of Burgundy, and Duke Thierry, and as was meet, Oliver's own father, Duke Reyner. Who acts: men. A sentence of «Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of Franc
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# Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France, How Oliver and Others Were Taken Prisoners, sentence 13

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When the men of France saw this, they made all haste to go to the help of Oliver, Roland first of all, and Richard of Normandy, and Guy of Burgundy, and Duke Thierry, and as was meet, Oliver's own father, Duke Reyner.

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**Who acts:** men · **What happens:** see, make, go, be, help · **To what, where:** this, haste, help, Oliver

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This is a sentence of «Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France» by Alfred John Church, How Oliver and Others Were Taken Prisoners. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (men), 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:pg75339:18:13
# text = When the men of France saw this, they made all haste to go to the help of Oliver, Roland first of all, and Richard of Normandy, and Guy of Burgundy, and Duke Thierry, and as was meet, Oliver's own father, Duke Reyner.
1	When	when	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	6	advmod	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	men	man	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	nsubj	_	_
4	of	of	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
5	France	France	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	nmod	_	_
6	saw	see	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	10	advcl	_	_
7	this	this	PRON	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	6	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	6	punct	_	_
9	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	10	nsubj	_	_
10	made	make	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
11	all	all	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	12	det	_	_
12	haste	haste	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obj	_	_
13	to	to	PART	TO	_	14	mark	_	_
14	go	go	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	12	acl	_	_
15	to	to	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
16	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
17	help	help	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	obl	_	_
18	of	of	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
19	Oliver	Oliver	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	17	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	21	punct	_	_
21	Roland	Roland	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	19	conj	_	_
22	first	first	ADV	RB	NumForm=Word|NumType=Ord	14	advmod	_	_
23	of	of	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	_
24	all	all	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	22	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	27	punct	_	_
26	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	27	cc	_	_
27	Richard	Richard	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	10	obl	_	_
28	of	of	ADP	IN	_	29	case	_	_
29	Normandy	Normandy	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	27	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
30	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	32	punct	_	_
31	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	32	cc	_	_
32	Guy	Guy	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	10	obl	_	_
33	of	of	ADP	IN	_	34	case	_	_
34	Burgundy	Burgundy	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	32	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
35	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	38	punct	_	_
36	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	38	cc	_	_
37	Duke	Duke	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	38	compound	_	_
38	Thierry	Thierry	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	32	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
39	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	43	punct	_	_
40	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	43	cc	_	_
41	as	as	SCONJ	IN	_	43	mark	_	_
42	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	43	cop	_	_
43	meet	meet	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	10	parataxis	_	SpaceAfter=No
44	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	48	punct	_	_
45	Oliver	Oliver	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	48	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
46	's	's	PART	POS	_	45	case	_	_
47	own	own	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	48	amod	_	_
48	father	father	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	43	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
49	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	51	punct	_	_
50	Duke	Duke	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	51	compound	_	_
51	Reyner	Reyner	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	48	appos	_	SpaceAfter=No
52	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	10	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **see** | past | the men of France | this |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer this=Stimulus |
| 2 | **make** | past | men *= man* | all haste |  |  |  | Richard of Normandy *obl*; Guy of Burgundy and Duke Thierry *obl* | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset haste=Product |
| 3 | **go** | to-infinitive | men *= man* *not said here* | all haste *not said here* |  | the help of Oliver and Roland |  | first *property* | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme to help=Initial\_Location |
| 4 | **is** | past |  |  |  |  |  | Oliver's own father *conj*; meet *property* | tree rules |
| 5 | **help** |  |  | Oliver and Roland |  |  |  |  | nom help «act transitive»: of=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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