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title: The Saracens also perceived it; whereupon King Coldro counselled the… — Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of F… · tree and pragmatics
description: The Saracens also perceived it; whereupon King Coldro counselled the Admiral that he should send an army to hinder him from coming to Aygremore. Who acts: Saracens, King, army. A sentence of «Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France» by Alfred John Church, Of the End of Balan the Admira
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# Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France, Of the End of Balan the Admiral, sentence 31

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The Saracens also perceived it; whereupon King Coldro counselled the Admiral that he should send an army to hinder him from coming to Aygremore.

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**Who acts:** Saracens, King, army · **What happens:** perceive, counsell, send, hinder, come · **To what, where:** ensign, Admiral, army, King, Aygremore

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This is a sentence of «Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France» by Alfred John Church, Of the End of Balan the Admiral. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Saracens, King, army), 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:pg75339:26:31
# text = The Saracens also perceived it; whereupon King Coldro counselled the Admiral that he should send an army to hinder him from coming to Aygremore.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	Saracens	saracen	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	nsubj	_	_
3	also	also	ADV	RB	_	4	advmod	_	_
4	perceived	perceive	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	4	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	10	punct	_	_
7	whereupon	whereupon	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	10	advmod	_	_
8	King	King	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	10	nsubj	_	_
9	Coldro	Coldro	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	8	flat	_	_
10	counselled	counsell	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	conj	_	_
11	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
12	Admiral	admiral	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obj	_	_
13	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	16	mark	_	_
14	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	16	nsubj	_	_
15	should	should	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	16	aux	_	_
16	send	send	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	10	advcl	_	_
17	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
18	army	army	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	obj	_	_
19	to	to	PART	TO	_	20	mark	_	_
20	hinder	hinder	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	16	xcomp	_	_
21	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	20	obj	_	_
22	from	from	SCONJ	IN	_	23	mark	_	_
23	coming	come	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	20	advcl	_	_
24	to	to	ADP	IN	_	25	case	_	_
25	Aygremore	Aygremore	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	23	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **perceive** | past | the Saracens | ensign |  |  |  |  | vn see-30.1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer it=Stimulus |
| 2 | **counsell** | past | King | the Admiral |  |  |  | whereupon *property* | tree rules |
| 3 | **send** | should | King | a army |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 4 | **hinder** | to-infinitive | a army *not said here* | King |  |  |  |  | vn discourage-64.5-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Causer he=Eventuality |
| 5 | **come** | gerund | a army *not said here* |  |  | Aygremore |  |  | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme to aygremore=Initial\_Location |

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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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