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title: These were on their way to the Admiral, but the French knights strai… — Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of F… · tree and pragmatics
description: These were on their way to the Admiral, but the French knights straightway slew the escort, and drove the beasts into the town. Who acts: These, knights straightway. A sentence of «Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France» by Alfred John Church, Of the Doings of the French Knights, with
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# Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France, Of the Doings of the French Knights, sentence 104

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These were on their way to the Admiral, but the French knights straightway slew the escort, and drove the beasts into the town.

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**Who acts:** These, knights straightway · **What happens:** be, slay, drive · **To what, where:** way, escort, beasts, town

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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 the French Knights. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (These, knights straightway), 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:pg75339:22:104
# text = These were on their way to the Admiral, but the French knights straightway slew the escort, and drove the beasts into the town.
1	These	this	PRON	DT	Number=Plur|PronType=Dem	5	nsubj	_	_
2	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	cop	_	_
3	on	on	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
4	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	5	nmod:poss	_	_
5	way	way	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
6	to	to	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	Admiral	admiral	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
10	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	15	cc	_	_
11	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
12	French	French	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	13	amod	_	_
13	knights	knight	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	14	compound	_	_
14	straightway	straightway	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	nsubj	_	_
15	slew	slay	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	acl:relcl	_	_
16	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
17	escort	escort	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	20	punct	_	_
19	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	20	cc	_	_
20	drove	drive	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	15	conj	_	_
21	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	22	det	_	_
22	beasts	beast	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	20	obj	_	_
23	into	into	ADP	IN	_	25	case	_	_
24	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	25	det	_	_
25	town	town	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | past | These |  |  | Frenchmen's way |  | to the Admiral; Frenchmen *= frenchman* *nmod:poss* | tree rules |
| 2 | **slay** | past | the knights straightway | the escort |  |  |  |  | vn murder-42.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent escort=Patient |
| 3 | **drive** | past | the knights straightway *not said here* | the beasts |  | the town |  |  | vn nonvehicle-51.4.2-1 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent beast=Theme into town=Trajectory |

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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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