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title: After this he bade thirty Saracens lead Guy to the tree, beating him… — Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of F… · tree and pragmatics
description: After this he bade thirty Saracens lead Guy to the tree, beating him sorely with their staves the while. Who acts: thirty Saracens. 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 cl
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# Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France, Of Guy of Burgundy, sentence 39

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After this he bade thirty Saracens lead Guy to the tree, beating him sorely with their staves the while.

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**Who acts:** thirty Saracens · **What happens:** lead, beat · **To what, where:** Guy, tree, thing

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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 (thirty Saracens), 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:pg75339:23:39
# text = After this he bade thirty Saracens lead Guy to the tree, beating him sorely with their staves the while.
1	After	after	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
2	this	this	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	4	det	_	_
3	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	4	nsubj	_	_
4	bade	bade	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obl	_	_
5	thirty	thirty	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	6	nummod	_	_
6	Saracens	saracen	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	7	nsubj	_	_
7	lead	lead	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
8	Guy	guy	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obj	_	_
9	to	to	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
10	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
11	tree	tree	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
13	beating	beat	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	7	advcl	_	_
14	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	13	obj	_	_
15	sorely	sorely	ADV	RB	_	13	advmod	_	_
16	with	with	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
17	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	18	nmod:poss	_	_
18	staves	stave	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	13	obl	_	_
19	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	20	det	_	_
20	while	while	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	nmod:unmarked	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	7	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **lead** | present | thirty Saracens | Guy |  | the tree | after this bade  thing |  | vn accompany-51.7 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent guy=Theme to tree=Destination |
| 2 | **beat** | gerund | thirty Saracens *not said here* | thing |  |  |  | with gallows's staves  the while; sorely *property* | vn hit-18.1-1 «NP V NP PP.instrument»: agent=Agent he=Patient with stave=Instrument |

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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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