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title: So King Charles sent for Ganelon, and gave him the message to be del… — Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of F… · tree and pragmatics
description: So King Charles sent for Ganelon, and gave him the message to be delivered to the Admiral; and Ganelon was well content to go. Who acts: Charles, Ganelon. A sentence of «Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France» by Alfred John Church, Of the End of Balan the Admiral, with its dependency
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# Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France, Of the End of Balan the Admiral, sentence 38

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So King Charles sent for Ganelon, and gave him the message to be delivered to the Admiral; and Ganelon was well content to go.

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**Who acts:** Charles, Ganelon · **What happens:** send, give, deliver, be, go · **To what, where:** message, Ganelon, Admiral

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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 (Charles, Ganelon), 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:pg75339:26:38
# text = So King Charles sent for Ganelon, and gave him the message to be delivered to the Admiral; and Ganelon was well content to go.
1	So	so	ADV	RB	_	4	advmod	_	_
2	King	King	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	nmod:desc	_	_
3	Charles	Charles	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
4	sent	send	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	for	for	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
6	Ganelon	Ganelon	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	9	punct	_	_
8	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	9	cc	_	_
9	gave	give	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	conj	_	_
10	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	9	iobj	_	_
11	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
12	message	message	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obj	_	_
13	to	to	PART	TO	_	15	mark	_	_
14	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	15	aux:pass	_	_
15	delivered	deliver	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	12	acl	_	_
16	to	to	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
17	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
18	Admiral	admiral	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	24	punct	_	_
20	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	24	cc	_	_
21	Ganelon	Ganelon	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	24	nsubj	_	_
22	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	24	cop	_	_
23	well	well	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	24	advmod	_	_
24	content	content	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	parataxis	_	_
25	to	to	PART	TO	_	26	mark	_	_
26	go	go	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	24	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **send** | past | Charles  King |  |  |  |  | for Ganelon | vn confine-92-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **give** | past | Charles  King *not said here* | the message | Ganelon |  |  |  | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent he=Recipient message=Theme |
| 3 | **deliver** | to-infinitive · passive | Charles  King *not said here* | the message *not said here* |  | the Admiral |  |  | vn send-11.1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: to admiral=Destination |
| 4 | **is** | past | Ganelon |  |  |  |  | content, well *property* | tree rules |
| 5 | **go** | to-infinitive | Ganelon *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |

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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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