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title: Let some of us clothe ourselves as merchants, having our armour and… — Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of F… · tree and pragmatics
description: Let some of us clothe ourselves as merchants, having our armour and arms under our cloaks, and let the rest hide themselves in a wood hard by, and be ready armed for battle. Who acts: you, us, rest. A sentence of «Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France» by Alfred John Church, Of Richa
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# Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France, Of Richard of Normandy, sentence 131

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Let some of us clothe ourselves as merchants, having our armour and arms under our cloaks, and let the rest hide themselves in a wood hard by, and be ready armed for battle.

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**Who acts:** you, us, rest · **What happens:** let, clothe, have, hide, be · **To what, where:** some, ourselves, armour, cloaks, wood

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This is a sentence of «Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France» by Alfred John Church, Of Richard of Normandy. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (you, us, rest), 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:pg75339:24:131
# text = Let some of us clothe ourselves as merchants, having our armour and arms under our cloaks, and let the rest hide themselves in a wood hard by, and be ready armed for battle.
1	Let	let	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
2	some	some	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	1	obj	_	_
3	of	of	SCONJ	IN	_	5	mark	_	_
4	us	we	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs	5	nsubj	_	_
5	clothe	clothe	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	2	advcl	_	_
6	ourselves	ourselves	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs|Reflex=Yes	5	obj	_	_
7	as	as	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
8	merchants	merchant	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
10	having	have	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	1	advcl	_	_
11	our	our	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	12	nmod:poss	_	_
12	armour	armour	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obj	_	_
13	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	14	cc	_	_
14	arms	arm	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	12	conj	_	_
15	under	under	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
16	our	our	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	17	nmod:poss	_	_
17	cloaks	cloak	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	14	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	20	punct	_	_
19	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	20	cc	_	_
20	let	let	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	1	conj	_	_
21	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	22	det	_	_
22	rest	rest	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	nsubj	_	_
23	hide	hide	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	20	ccomp	_	_
24	themselves	themselves	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs|Reflex=Yes	23	obj	_	_
25	in	in	ADP	IN	_	27	case	_	_
26	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	27	det	_	_
27	wood	wood	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	obl	_	_
28	hard	hard	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	23	advmod	_	_
29	by	by	ADP	IN	_	28	fixed	_	SpaceAfter=No
30	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	34	punct	_	_
31	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	34	cc	_	_
32	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	33	cop	_	_
33	ready	ready	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	34	amod	_	_
34	armed	armed	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	1	parataxis	_	_
35	for	for	ADP	IN	_	36	case	_	_
36	battle	battle	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	34	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
37	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	1	punct	_	_
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## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **let** | imperative | you *not said here* | some |  |  |  |  | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent some=Theme |
| 2 | **clothe** | present | us | ourselves |  |  |  | as merchants | vn dress-41.1.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent ourselves=Patient |
| 3 | **have** | gerund | you *not said here* | our armour and arms under our cloaks |  |  |  |  | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent armour=Patient |
| 4 | **let** | infinitive | you *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 5 | **hide** | present | the rest | cloaks *= cloak* |  | a wood |  | hard *property* | vn concealment-16-1 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent themselves=Patient in wood=Location |
| 6 | **is** | infinitive |  |  |  |  |  | ready *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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