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title: But first cause that a thousand Turks well armed and fit for battle… — Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of F… · tree and pragmatics
description: But first cause that a thousand Turks well armed and fit for battle be hidden in a secret place near to the said tree. Who acts: you. A sentence of «Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France» by Alfred John Church, Of Guy of Burgundy, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every 
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# Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France, Of Guy of Burgundy, sentence 35

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But first cause that a thousand Turks well armed and fit for battle be hidden in a secret place near to the said tree.

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**Who acts:** you · **What happens:** cause, fit, hide, say · **To what, where:** secret place · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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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 (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:pg75339:23:35
# text = But first cause that a thousand Turks well armed and fit for battle be hidden in a secret place near to the said tree.
1	But	but	CCONJ	CC	_	3	cc	_	_
2	first	first	ADV	RB	NumForm=Word|NumType=Ord	3	advmod	_	_
3	cause	cause	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	9	mark	_	_
5	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	thousand	thousand	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	7	nummod	_	_
7	Turks	Turk	PROPN	NNPS	Number=Plur	9	nsubj	_	_
8	well	well	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	9	advmod	_	_
9	armed	armed	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	15	advcl	_	_
10	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	11	cc	_	_
11	fit	fit	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	9	conj	_	_
12	for	for	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
13	battle	battle	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	obl	_	_
14	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	15	aux:pass	_	_
15	hidden	hide	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	3	advcl	_	_
16	in	in	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
17	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	19	det	_	_
18	secret	secret	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	19	amod	_	_
19	place	place	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	obl	_	_
20	near	near	ADV	RB	_	24	advmod	_	_
21	to	to	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	_
22	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	24	det	_	_
23	said	say	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	24	amod	_	_
24	tree	tree	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **cause** | imperative | you *not said here* |  |  |  |  | first *property* | vn result-27.2 «NP V PP»: agent=Precondition |
| 2 | **fit** | present |  |  |  |  |  | for battle | vn adjust-26.9 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **hide** | infinitive · passive | you *not said here* |  |  | a secret place |  | the said tree *advcl* | vn concealment-16-1 «NP V PP.location»: in place=Location |
| 4 | **say** *speech: assert* | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent |

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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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