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title: Therefore, coming into the hall, she saluted her father, and said to… — Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of F… · tree and pragmatics
description: Therefore, coming into the hall, she saluted her father, and said to him, "Who are these knights that are set yonder by themselves?" Who acts: Sortibrant, knights. A sentence of «Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France» by Alfred John Church, Of the Doings of Floripas, with its depende
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# Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France, Of the Doings of Floripas, sentence 32

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Therefore, coming into the hall, she saluted her father, and said to him, "Who are these knights that are set yonder by themselves?"

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**Who acts:** Sortibrant, knights · **What happens:** come, salute, say, be, set · **To what, where:** hall, father, Admiral, 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 (Sortibrant, knights), 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:pg75339:21:32
# text = Therefore, coming into the hall, she saluted her father, and said to him, "Who are these knights that are set yonder by themselves?"
1	Therefore	therefore	ADV	RB	_	3	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	1	punct	_	_
3	coming	come	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	9	advcl	_	_
4	into	into	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	hall	hall	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	3	punct	_	_
8	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	9	nsubj	_	_
9	saluted	salute	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
10	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	11	nmod:poss	_	_
11	father	father	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
13	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	14	cc	_	_
14	said	say	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	9	conj	_	_
15	to	to	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
16	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	14	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	22	punct	_	_
18	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	22	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	Who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	22	nsubj	_	_
20	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	22	cop	_	_
21	these	this	DET	DT	Number=Plur|PronType=Dem	22	det	_	_
22	knights	knight	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	14	obl	_	_
23	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	25	nsubj:pass	_	_
24	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	25	aux:pass	_	_
25	set	set	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	22	acl:relcl	_	_
26	yonder	yonder	ADV	RB	_	25	advmod	_	_
27	by	by	ADP	IN	_	28	case	_	_
28	themselves	themselves	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs|Reflex=Yes	25	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
29	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	9	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
30	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	9	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **come** | gerund | Sortibrant *not said here* |  |  | the hall |  | therefore *property* | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme into hall=Initial\_Location |
| 2 | **salute** | past | Sortibrant | Sortibrant's father |  |  |  |  | vn curtsey-40.3.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent father=Topic |
| 3 | **say** *speech: ask* | past | Sortibrant *not said here* |  | Admiral |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V PP.recipient S-Quote»: agent=Agent to he=Recipient |
| 4 | **is a** *in a quote* | present |  | this knights |  |  |  | Who *nsubj* | tree rules |
| 5 | **set** *in a quote* | present · passive | knights *= knight* | this knights |  |  |  | yonder *property* | vn other\_cos-45.4-1 «NP V NP ADJ»: agent=Patient subject=Result |

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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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