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description: So the King, seeing that there was much danger lest the Saracens should lay an ambush for his army, bade them halt and turn back to the camp. Who acts: seeing, King. A sentence of «Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France» by Alfred John Church, How Oliver and Others Were Taken Prisoner
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# Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France, How Oliver and Others Were Taken Prisoners, sentence 50

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So the King, seeing that there was much danger lest the Saracens should lay an ambush for his army, bade them halt and turn back to the camp.

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**Who acts:** seeing, King · **What happens:** see, be, lay, turn back · **To what, where:** danger, ambush, camp

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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 (seeing, 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:pg75339:18:50
# text = So the King, seeing that there was much danger lest the Saracens should lay an ambush for his army, bade them halt and turn back to the camp.
1	So	so	ADV	RB	_	15	advmod	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	King	King	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	15	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
5	seeing	see	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	10	csubj	_	_
6	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	8	mark	_	_
7	there	there	PRON	EX	PronType=Dem	8	expl	_	_
8	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	10	cop	_	_
9	much	much	ADV	RB	_	10	advmod	_	_
10	danger	danger	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	acl:relcl	_	_
11	lest	lest	SCONJ	IN	_	13	case	_	_
12	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
13	Saracens	saracen	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	10	nmod	_	_
14	should	should	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	15	aux	_	_
15	lay	lay	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
16	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
17	ambush	ambush	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	obj	_	_
18	for	for	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
19	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	20	nmod:poss	_	_
20	army	army	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	22	punct	_	_
22	bade	bade	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	conj	_	_
23	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	22	obj	_	_
24	halt	halt	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	conj	_	_
25	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	26	cc	_	_
26	turn	turn	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	15	conj	_	_
27	back	back	ADV	RB	_	26	advmod	_	_
28	to	to	ADP	IN	_	30	case	_	_
29	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	30	det	_	_
30	camp	camp	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	26	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
31	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	15	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **see** | gerund |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer |
| 2 | **is a** | past | seeing | danger |  |  |  | lest the Saracens | tree rules |
| 3 | **lay** | should | the King | a ambush |  |  |  | for King's army and bade  Saracens and halt | vn create-26.4 «NP V NP PP.beneficiary»: agent=Agent ambush=Result for army=Beneficiary |
| 4 | **turn back** | present | the King *not said here* |  |  | the camp |  |  | vn banish-10.2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent to camp=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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