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title: So the Duke spake first, beginning in this fashion, "Now may God Alm… — Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of F… · tree and pragmatics
description: So the Duke spake first, beginning in this fashion, "Now may God Almighty save and defend our mighty Lord King Charles, and confound Balan the Admiral and his subjects. Who acts: Duke spake, God. A sentence of «Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France» by Alfred John Church, Of the Doin
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# Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France, Of the Doings of Floripas, sentence 5

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So the Duke spake first, beginning in this fashion, "Now may God Almighty save and defend our mighty Lord King Charles, and confound Balan the Admiral and his subjects.

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**Who acts:** Duke spake, God · **What happens:** begin, save, defend, confound · **To what, where:** fashion, mighty Charles, Balan

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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 (Duke spake, God), 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:pg75339:21:5
# text = So the Duke spake first, beginning in this fashion, "Now may God Almighty save and defend our mighty Lord King Charles, and confound Balan the Admiral and his subjects.
1	So	so	ADV	RB	_	7	advmod	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
3	Duke	Duke	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	compound	_	_
4	spake	speak	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	nsubj	_	_
5	first	first	ADV	RB	NumForm=Word|NumType=Ord	7	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	7	punct	_	_
7	beginning	begin	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	17	advcl	_	_
8	in	in	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
9	this	this	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	10	det	_	_
10	fashion	fashion	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	7	punct	_	_
12	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	17	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	Now	now	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	17	advmod	_	_
14	may	may	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	17	aux	_	_
15	God	God	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	17	nsubj	_	_
16	Almighty	Almighty	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	15	flat	_	_
17	save	save	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
18	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	19	cc	_	_
19	defend	defend	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	17	conj	_	_
20	our	our	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	24	nmod:poss	_	_
21	mighty	mighty	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	24	amod	_	_
22	Lord	Lord	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	23	compound	_	_
23	King	King	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	24	nmod:desc	_	_
24	Charles	Charles	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	19	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	27	punct	_	_
26	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	27	cc	_	_
27	confound	confound	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	17	conj	_	_
28	Balan	Balan	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	27	obj	_	_
29	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	30	det	_	_
30	Admiral	Admiral	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	28	appos	_	_
31	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	33	cc	_	_
32	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	33	nmod:poss	_	_
33	subjects	subject	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	28	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
34	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	17	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **begin** | gerund | the Duke spake |  |  | this fashion |  | first *property* | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality |
| 2 | **save** *in a quote* | may | God |  |  |  | now |  | vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **defend** *in a quote* | infinitive | God *not said here* |  | our mighty Charles  Lord King |  |  |  | vn defend-72.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent charles=Beneficiary |
| 4 | **confound** *in a quote* | infinitive | God *not said here* | Balan and God's subjects |  |  |  |  | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus balan=Experiencer |

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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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