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title: Send also four hundred mules laden with gold and silver, that King C… — Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of F… · tree and pragmatics
description: Send also four hundred mules laden with gold and silver, that King Charles may have wherewithal to pay his soldiers. Who acts: you, Charles. A sentence of «Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France» by Alfred John Church, How Ganelon Went on an Errand to King Marsilas, with its dependenc
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# Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France, How Ganelon Went on an Errand to King Marsilas, sentence 10

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Send also four hundred mules laden with gold and silver, that King Charles may have wherewithal to pay his soldiers.

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**Who acts:** you, Charles · **What happens:** send, lade, have, pay · **To what, where:** hundred mules, wherewithal, soldiers

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This is a sentence of «Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France» by Alfred John Church, How Ganelon Went on an Errand to King Marsilas. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (you, Charles), 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:pg75339:27:10
# text = Send also four hundred mules laden with gold and silver, that King Charles may have wherewithal to pay his soldiers.
1	Send	send	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
2	also	also	ADV	RB	_	4	advmod	_	_
3	four	four	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	4	compound	_	_
4	hundred	hundred	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	5	nummod	_	_
5	mules	mule	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	1	obj	_	_
6	laden	lade	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	5	acl	_	_
7	with	with	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
8	gold	gold	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obl	_	_
9	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	10	cc	_	_
10	silver	silver	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
12	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	16	mark	_	_
13	King	King	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	14	nmod:desc	_	_
14	Charles	Charles	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	16	nsubj	_	_
15	may	may	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	16	aux	_	_
16	have	have	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	1	conj	_	_
17	wherewithal	wherewithal	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	obj	_	_
18	to	to	PART	TO	_	19	mark	_	_
19	pay	pay	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	17	acl	_	_
20	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	21	nmod:poss	_	_
21	soldiers	soldier	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	19	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	1	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **send** | imperative | you *not said here* | hundred mules |  |  |  |  | vn confine-92-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent mule=Theme |
| 2 | **lade** | participle |  | hundred mules *not said here* |  |  |  | with gold and silver | tree rules |
| 3 | **have** | may | Charles  King | wherewithal |  |  |  |  | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent wherewithal=Patient |
| 4 | **pay** | to-infinitive | Charles  King *not said here* | Charles's soldiers |  |  |  |  | vn pay-68-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent soldier=Asset |

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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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