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title: And mark this: there lie in wait in that wood yonder 40,000 men--sol… — Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of F… · tree and pragmatics
description: And mark this: there lie in wait in that wood yonder 40,000 men--soldiers of mine, whom I set there this very day, bidding them there abide till I should return from the battle." Who acts: you, I, lie, there. A sentence of «Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France» by Alfred John Church
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# Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France, How Oliver and Others Were Taken Prisoners, sentence 9

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And mark this: there lie in wait in that wood yonder 40,000 men--soldiers of mine, whom I set there this very day, bidding them there abide till I should return from the battle."

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**Who acts:** you, I, lie, there · **What happens:** mark, set, bid, abide, return, lie · **To what, where:** this, 40,000 men, men, battle, wait

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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 (you, I, lie, there), 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:pg75339:18:9
# text = And mark this: there lie in wait in that wood yonder 40,000 men--soldiers of mine, whom I set there this very day, bidding them there abide till I should return from the battle."
1	And	and	CCONJ	CC	_	2	cc	_	_
2	mark	mark	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	this	this	PRON	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	2	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	6	punct	_	_
5	there	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs|Typo=Yes	6	nmod:poss	_	_
6	lie	lie	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	31	nsubj	_	_
7	in	in	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
8	wait	wait	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nmod	_	_
9	in	in	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
10	that	that	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	11	det	_	_
11	wood	wood	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nmod	_	_
12	yonder	yonder	ADV	RB	_	14	advmod	_	_
13	40,000	40000	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	14	nummod	_	_
14	men	man	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	31	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	--	--	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	soldiers	soldier	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	14	conj	_	_
17	of	of	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
18	mine	my	PRON	PRP	Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	16	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	22	punct	_	_
20	whom	whom	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	22	obj	_	_
21	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	22	nsubj	_	_
22	set	set	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	14	acl:relcl	_	_
23	there	there	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	22	advmod	_	_
24	this	this	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	26	det	_	_
25	very	very	ADV	RB	_	26	advmod	_	_
26	day	day	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	obl:unmarked	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	28	punct	_	_
28	bidding	bid	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	22	advcl	_	_
29	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	28	obj	_	_
30	there	there	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	28	advmod	_	_
31	abide	abide	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	2	parataxis	_	_
32	till	till	SCONJ	IN	_	35	mark	_	_
33	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	35	nsubj	_	_
34	should	should	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	35	aux	_	_
35	return	return	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	31	ccomp	_	_
36	from	from	ADP	IN	_	38	case	_	_
37	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	38	det	_	_
38	battle	battle	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	35	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
39	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
40	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **mark** | imperative | you *not said here* | this |  |  |  |  | vn image\_impression-25.1 «NP V NP.destination»: agent=Agent this=Destination |
| 2 | **set** | past | I | 40,000 men and soldiers of mine |  | there | day |  | vn other\_cos-45.4-1 «NP V NP ADJ»: agent=Patient whom=Result |
| 3 | **bid** | gerund | I *not said here* | men *= man* |  | there |  |  | tree rules |
| 4 | **abide** | present | there's lie in wait in that wood |  |  |  |  | 40,000 men and soldiers of mine *nsubj* | tree rules |
| 5 | **return** | should | I |  |  | the battle |  |  | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme from battle=Initial\_Location |
| 6 | **lie** |  | there *= they* |  |  | wait |  |  | nom lie «communication intransitive»: poss=agent in=place |

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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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