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title: Set up a gallows-tree near to the moat of the Tower in which the Fre… — Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of F… · tree and pragmatics
description: Set up a gallows-tree near to the moat of the Tower in which the French knights abide, and make as if you were going to hang this prisoner. Who acts: French knights, you. A sentence of «Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France» by Alfred John Church, Of Guy of Burgundy, with its depende
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# Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France, Of Guy of Burgundy, sentence 34

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Set up a gallows-tree near to the moat of the Tower in which the French knights abide, and make as if you were going to hang this prisoner.

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**Who acts:** French knights, you · **What happens:** set up, abide, make, go, hang · **To what, where:** gallows, moat, prisoner

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This is a sentence of «Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France» by Alfred John Church, Of Guy of Burgundy. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (French knights, you), 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:pg75339:23:34
# text = Set up a gallows-tree near to the moat of the Tower in which the French knights abide, and make as if you were going to hang this prisoner.
1	Set	set	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
2	up	up	ADP	RP	_	1	compound:prt	_	_
3	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	gallows	gallows	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	1	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	6	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	tree	tree	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	appos	_	_
7	near	near	ADV	RB	_	10	advmod	_	_
8	to	to	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
9	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
10	moat	moat	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nmod	_	_
11	of	of	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
12	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
13	Tower	Tower	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	10	nmod	_	_
14	in	in	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
15	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	19	obl	_	_
16	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
17	French	French	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	18	amod	_	_
18	knights	knight	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	19	nsubj	_	_
19	abide	abide	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	10	parataxis	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	22	punct	_	_
21	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	22	cc	_	_
22	make	make	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	19	conj	_	_
23	as	as	SCONJ	IN	_	27	mark	_	_
24	if	if	SCONJ	IN	_	27	mark	_	_
25	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	27	nsubj	_	_
26	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	27	aux	_	_
27	going	go	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	22	advcl	_	_
28	to	to	PART	TO	_	29	mark	_	_
29	hang	hang	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	27	xcomp	_	_
30	this	this	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	31	det	_	_
31	prisoner	prisoner	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	29	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
32	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	1	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **set up** | participle |  | a gallows |  |  |  |  | vn other\_cos-45.4-1 «NP V NP ADJ»: agent=Patient gallows=Result |
| 2 | **abide** | present | the French knights |  |  | the moat of the Tower |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **make** | infinitive | the French knights *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset |
| 4 | **go** | past · progressive | you |  |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7 «NP V S-Quote»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 5 | **hang** | to-infinitive | you *not said here* | this prisoner |  |  |  |  | vn poison-42.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent prisoner=Patient |

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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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