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title: When the Admiral heard this counsel he agreed to it, and commanded t… — Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of F… · tree and pragmatics
description: When the Admiral heard this counsel he agreed to it, and commanded that preparations should be made for the slaying of the French knights. Who acts: Admiral. A sentence of «Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France» by Alfred John Church, Of the Doings of Floripas, with its dependency tr
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# Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France, Of the Doings of Floripas, sentence 30

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When the Admiral heard this counsel he agreed to it, and commanded that preparations should be made for the slaying of the French knights.

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**Who acts:** Admiral · **What happens:** hear, agree, command, make, slay · **To what, where:** counsel, preparations, French knights · **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 Doings of Floripas. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Admiral), 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:pg75339:21:30
# text = When the Admiral heard this counsel he agreed to it, and commanded that preparations should be made for the slaying of the French knights.
1	When	when	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	4	advmod	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	Admiral	admiral	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
4	heard	hear	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	this	this	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	6	det	_	_
6	counsel	counsel	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obj	_	_
7	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	8	nsubj	_	_
8	agreed	agree	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	6	acl:relcl	_	_
9	to	to	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
10	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	8	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
12	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	13	cc	_	_
13	commanded	command	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	conj	_	_
14	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	18	mark	_	_
15	preparations	preparation	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	18	nsubj:pass	_	_
16	should	should	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	18	aux	_	_
17	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	18	aux:pass	_	_
18	made	make	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	13	ccomp	_	_
19	for	for	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
20	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	21	det	_	_
21	slaying	slaying	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	obl	_	_
22	of	of	ADP	IN	_	25	case	_	_
23	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	25	det	_	_
24	French	French	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	25	amod	_	_
25	knights	knight	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	21	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **hear** | past | the Admiral | this counsel |  |  |  |  | vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer counsel=Stimulus |
| 2 | **agree** *speech: agree* | past | Admiral | this counsel *not said here* | counsel |  |  |  | vn correspond-36.1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent counsel=Topic |
| 3 | **command** | past | the Admiral *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn order-58.3-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 4 | **make** | should · passive |  | preparations |  |  |  | for the slaying of the French knights | vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP P.asset»: subject=Product for slaying=Asset |
| 5 | **slay** |  |  | the French knights |  |  |  |  | nom slaying «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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