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# Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France, How Ganelon Went on an Errand to King Marsilas, sentence 102

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Said King Charles to Ganelon: "Come hither, Ganelon, and take this gauntlet and this staff.

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**What happens:** come, take · **To what, where:** Ganelon, gauntlet, Said Charles

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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: 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:pg75339:27:102
# text = Said King Charles to Ganelon: "Come hither, Ganelon, and take this gauntlet and this staff.
1	Said	Said	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	compound	_	_
2	King	King	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	nmod:desc	_	_
3	Charles	Charles	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
4	to	to	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
5	Ganelon	Ganelon	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	8	punct	_	_
7	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	8	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	Come	come	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	3	parataxis	_	_
9	hither	hither	ADV	RB	_	8	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
11	Ganelon	Ganelon	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	8	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
13	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	14	cc	_	_
14	take	take	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	8	conj	_	_
15	this	this	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	16	det	_	_
16	gauntlet	gauntlet	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	obj	_	_
17	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	19	cc	_	_
18	this	this	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	19	det	_	_
19	staff	staff	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **come** *in a quote* | infinitive |  | Ganelon |  |  |  | hither *property* | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **take** *in a quote* | infinitive |  | this gauntlet and this staff |  |  |  |  | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent gauntlet=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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