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title: But we have taken five of King Charles's knights; seven other knight… — Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of F… · tree and pragmatics
description: But we have taken five of King Charles's knights; seven other knights came hither bearing a very insolent message to me from the King, all these therefore are in prison. Who acts: we, seven other knights, these. A sentence of «Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France» by Alfred John Chu
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# Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France, Of the Doings of the French Knights, sentence 5

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But we have taken five of King Charles's knights; seven other knights came hither bearing a very insolent message to me from the King, all these therefore are in prison.

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**Who acts:** we, seven other knights, these · **What happens:** take, come, bear, be · **To what, where:** five, insolent message, prison

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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 (we, seven other knights, these), 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:pg75339:22:5
# text = But we have taken five of King Charles's knights; seven other knights came hither bearing a very insolent message to me from the King, all these therefore are in prison.
1	But	but	CCONJ	CC	_	4	cc	_	_
2	we	we	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs	4	nsubj	_	_
3	have	have	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	aux	_	_
4	taken	take	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	0	root	_	_
5	five	five	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	4	obj	_	_
6	of	of	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
7	King	King	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	8	nmod:desc	_	_
8	Charles	Charles	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	10	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	's	's	PART	POS	_	8	case	_	_
10	knights	knight	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	15	punct	_	_
12	seven	seven	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	14	nummod	_	_
13	other	other	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	14	amod	_	_
14	knights	knight	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	15	nsubj	_	_
15	came	come	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	conj	_	_
16	hither	hither	ADV	RB	_	15	advmod	_	_
17	bearing	bear	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	15	advcl	_	_
18	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	21	det	_	_
19	very	very	ADV	RB	_	20	advmod	_	_
20	insolent	insolent	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	21	amod	_	_
21	message	message	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	obj	_	_
22	to	to	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
23	me	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	21	nmod	_	_
24	from	from	ADP	IN	_	26	case	_	_
25	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	26	det	_	_
26	King	King	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	17	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	33	punct	_	_
28	all	all	DET	PDT	PronType=Tot	33	det:predet	_	_
29	these	this	PRON	DT	Number=Plur|PronType=Dem	33	nsubj	_	_
30	therefore	therefore	ADV	RB	_	33	advmod	_	_
31	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	33	cop	_	_
32	in	in	ADP	IN	_	33	case	_	_
33	prison	prison	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
34	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **take** | present · perfect | we | five of Charles  King's knights |  |  |  |  | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent five=Theme |
| 2 | **come** | past | seven other knights |  |  |  |  | hither *property* | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 3 | **bear** | gerund | seven other knights *not said here* | a insolent message |  |  |  | to me; from the King | vn birth-28.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent message=Patient |
| 4 | **is** | present | these |  |  | all prison |  | therefore *property* | tree rules |

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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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