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title: For these have borne themselves to us most dishonourably, seeking to… — Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of F… · tree and pragmatics
description: For these have borne themselves to us most dishonourably, seeking to take from us our horses and other possessions." A sentence of «Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France» by Alfred John Church, Of the Doings of Floripas, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France, Of the Doings of Floripas, sentence 6

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For these have borne themselves to us most dishonourably, seeking to take from us our horses and other possessions."

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**What happens:** bear, seek, take · **To what, where:** these, us, horses

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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: 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:pg75339:21:6
# text = For these have borne themselves to us most dishonourably, seeking to take from us our horses and other possessions."
1	For	for	SCONJ	IN	_	4	mark	_	_
2	these	this	PRON	DT	Number=Plur|PronType=Dem	4	nsubj:pass	_	_
3	have	have	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	aux	_	_
4	borne	bear	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
5	themselves	themselves	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs|Reflex=Yes	4	obj	_	_
6	to	to	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
7	us	we	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs	4	obl	_	_
8	most	most	ADV	RBS	Degree=Sup	9	advmod	_	_
9	dishonourably	dishonourably	ADV	RB	_	4	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
11	seeking	seek	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	4	conj	_	_
12	to	to	PART	TO	_	13	mark	_	_
13	take	take	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	11	xcomp	_	_
14	from	from	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
15	us	we	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs	13	obl	_	_
16	our	our	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	17	nmod:poss	_	_
17	horses	horse	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	13	obj	_	_
18	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	20	cc	_	_
19	other	other	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	20	amod	_	_
20	possessions	possession	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	17	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **bear** | present · perfect · passive |  | these | us |  |  | Balan *obj*; dishonourably *property* | vn birth-28.2-1-1 «NP V NP NP»: subject=Beneficiary themselves=Patient |
| 2 | **seek** | gerund |  |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **take** *not said to happen* | to-infinitive |  | our horses and other possessions |  |  |  | from us | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP PP.initial\_location»: agent=Agent horse=Theme from we=Initial\_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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