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# Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France, Of the Bridge of Mantryble, sentence 23

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When they were come the fiercest of them, Maradas by name, said, "Sir Admiral, why have you sent for us?"

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**Who acts:** Saracens, you · **What happens:** come, say, send · **To what, where:** fiercest · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of «Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France» by Alfred John Church, Of the Bridge of Mantryble. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Saracens, you), 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:pg75339:20:23
# text = When they were come the fiercest of them, Maradas by name, said, "Sir Admiral, why have you sent for us?"
1	When	when	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	4	advmod	_	_
2	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	4	nsubj	_	_
3	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	aux	_	_
4	come	come	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	14	ccomp	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	fiercest	fierce	ADJ	JJS	Degree=Sup	4	obl	_	_
7	of	of	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
8	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	6	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
10	Maradas	Maradas	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	_
11	by	by	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
12	name	name	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
14	said	say	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
16	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	18	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	Sir	Sir	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	18	compound	_	_
18	Admiral	admiral	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	ccomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	23	punct	_	_
20	why	why	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	23	advmod	_	_
21	have	have	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	23	aux	_	_
22	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	23	nsubj	_	_
23	sent	send	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	18	acl:relcl	_	_
24	for	for	ADP	IN	_	25	case	_	_
25	us	we	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs	23	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	23	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	18	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **come** | past | Saracens *= saracen* | the fiercest of knights |  |  |  | by name; Maradas *obl* | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme by name=Location |
| 2 | **say** *speech: ask* | past |  |  |  |  |  | Sir Admiral *ccomp* | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 3 | **send** *in a quote* | present · perfect | you |  |  |  |  | for us | vn confine-92-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |

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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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