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title: He said to the Admiral, "Let me have some of your men to wait on me,… — Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of F… · tree and pragmatics
description: He said to the Admiral, "Let me have some of your men to wait on me, and I will speedily deliver these Christians into your hand." Who acts: knight. 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 pragm
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# Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France, Of Guy of Burgundy, sentence 91

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He said to the Admiral, "Let me have some of your men to wait on me, and I will speedily deliver these Christians into your hand."

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**Who acts:** knight · **What happens:** say, let, have, wait, deliver · **To what, where:** Admiral, knight, some, Christians, hand · **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 (knight), 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:pg75339:23:91
# text = He said to the Admiral, "Let me have some of your men to wait on me, and I will speedily deliver these Christians into your hand."
1	He	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	nsubj	_	_
2	said	say	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	to	to	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	Admiral	admiral	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	8	punct	_	_
7	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	8	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	Let	let	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	2	ccomp	_	_
9	me	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	8	obj	_	_
10	have	have	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	8	xcomp	_	_
11	some	some	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	10	obj	_	_
12	of	of	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
13	your	your	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	14	nmod:poss	_	_
14	men	man	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	11	nmod	_	_
15	to	to	PART	TO	_	16	mark	_	_
16	wait	wait	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	14	acl	_	_
17	on	on	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
18	me	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	16	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	24	punct	_	_
20	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	24	cc	_	_
21	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	24	nsubj	_	_
22	will	will	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	24	aux	_	_
23	speedily	speedily	ADV	RB	_	24	advmod	_	_
24	deliver	deliver	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	8	conj	_	_
25	these	this	DET	DT	Number=Plur|PronType=Dem	26	det	_	_
26	Christians	Christian	PROPN	NNPS	Number=Plur	24	obj	_	_
27	into	into	ADP	IN	_	29	case	_	_
28	your	your	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	29	nmod:poss	_	_
29	hand	hand	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
30	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	8	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
31	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	8	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **say** *speech: assert* | past | knight |  | the Admiral |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V PP.recipient S-Quote»: agent=Agent to admiral=Recipient clause=Topic |
| 2 | **let** *in a quote* | infinitive |  | knight |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **have** *in a quote* | infinitive | knight *not said here* | some of your men |  |  |  |  | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent some=Patient |
| 4 | **wait** *in a quote* | to-infinitive | knight *not said here* |  |  |  |  | on knight | vn exist-47.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme on i=Location |
| 5 | **deliver** *in a quote* | future | knight | this Christians |  | your hand |  | speedily *property* | vn birth-28.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent christian=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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