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title: Let us sally forth from the Tower, and assault the Saracens with all… — Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of F… · tree and pragmatics
description: Let us sally forth from the Tower, and assault the Saracens with all our might, and while they are busied with us then shall Duke Richard steal away, for he well knows the country." Who acts: you, Duke. A sentence of «Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France» by Alfred John Church, Of R
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# Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France, Of Richard of Normandy, sentence 22

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Let us sally forth from the Tower, and assault the Saracens with all our might, and while they are busied with us then shall Duke Richard steal away, for he well knows the country."

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**Who acts:** you, Duke · **What happens:** let, assault, busy, steal away, know · **To what, where:** us, Tower, Saracens, country

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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, Duke), 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:pg75339:24:22
# text = Let us sally forth from the Tower, and assault the Saracens with all our might, and while they are busied with us then shall Duke Richard steal away, for he well knows the country."
1	Let	let	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
2	us	we	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs	1	obj	_	_
3	sally	sally	ADV	RB	_	4	advmod	_	_
4	forth	forth	ADV	RB	_	1	advmod	_	_
5	from	from	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	Tower	Tower	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	1	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
9	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	10	cc	_	_
10	assault	assault	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	1	conj	_	_
11	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
12	Saracens	saracen	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	10	obj	_	_
13	with	with	SCONJ	IN	_	16	mark	_	_
14	all	all	DET	PDT	PronType=Tot	16	det:predet	_	_
15	our	our	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	16	nmod:poss	_	_
16	might	might	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	10	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	22	punct	_	_
18	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	22	cc	_	_
19	while	while	SCONJ	IN	_	22	mark	_	_
20	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	22	nsubj	_	_
21	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	22	aux:pass	_	_
22	busied	busy	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	1	parataxis	_	_
23	with	with	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	_
24	us	we	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs	22	obl	_	_
25	then	then	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	29	advmod	_	_
26	shall	shall	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	29	aux	_	_
27	Duke	Duke	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	29	nsubj	_	_
28	Richard	Richard	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	27	flat	_	_
29	steal	steal	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	22	advcl	_	_
30	away	away	ADV	RB	_	29	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
31	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	35	punct	_	_
32	for	for	SCONJ	IN	_	35	mark	_	_
33	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	35	nsubj	_	_
34	well	well	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	35	advmod	_	_
35	knows	know	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	1	conj	_	_
36	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	37	det	_	_
37	country	country	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	35	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
38	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	1	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
39	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	1	punct	_	_
```

## 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* | us |  | the Tower |  | forth *property* | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent we=Theme |
| 2 | **assault** | infinitive | you *not said here* | the Saracens |  |  |  |  | vn attack-60.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent saracen=Patient |
| 3 | **busy** | present · passive |  | Saracens *= saracen* |  |  |  | with us | tree rules |
| 4 | **steal away** | shall | Duke |  |  |  | then | away *property* | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 5 | **know** | present | Duke | the country |  |  |  | well *property* | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer country=Stimulus |

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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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