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title: Send for Brutamont, and let him take these men in charge." — Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of F… · tree and pragmatics
description: Send for Brutamont, and let him take these men in charge." Who acts: you, Brutamont. A sentence of «Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France» by Alfred John Church, How Oliver and His Comrades Fared, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France, How Oliver and His Comrades Fared, sentence 31

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Send for Brutamont, and let him take these men in charge."

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**Who acts:** you, Brutamont · **What happens:** send, let, take · **To what, where:** Brutamont, men, charge

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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 His Comrades Fared. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (you, Brutamont), 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:pg75339:19:31
# text = Send for Brutamont, and let him take these men in charge."
1	Send	send	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
2	for	for	ADP	IN	_	3	case	_	_
3	Brutamont	Brutamont	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	1	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	6	punct	_	_
5	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	6	cc	_	_
6	let	let	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	1	parataxis	_	_
7	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	6	obj	_	_
8	take	take	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	6	xcomp	_	_
9	these	this	DET	DT	Number=Plur|PronType=Dem	10	det	_	_
10	men	man	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	8	obj	_	_
11	in	in	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
12	charge	charge	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	1	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	1	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **send** | imperative | you *not said here* |  |  |  |  | for Brutamont | vn confine-92-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **let** | infinitive |  | Brutamont |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **take** | infinitive | Brutamont *not said here* | this men |  | charge |  |  | vn fit-54.3 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent man=Value in charge=Location |

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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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