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title: Then said the King, "My lords, King Marsilas has sent an embassy to… — Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of F… · tree and pragmatics
description: Then said the King, "My lords, King Marsilas has sent an embassy to me with many and rich gifts, lions and bears, and camels, and abundance of gold and silver. Who acts: King. A sentence of «Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France» by Alfred John Church, How Ganelon Went on an Errand t
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# Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France, How Ganelon Went on an Errand to King Marsilas, sentence 50

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Then said the King, "My lords, King Marsilas has sent an embassy to me with many and rich gifts, lions and bears, and camels, and abundance of gold and silver.

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**Who acts:** King · **What happens:** say, send · **To what, where:** lords, King · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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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 (King), 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:pg75339:27:50
# text = Then said the King, "My lords, King Marsilas has sent an embassy to me with many and rich gifts, lions and bears, and camels, and abundance of gold and silver.
1	Then	then	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	2	advmod	_	_
2	said	say	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	King	King	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	2	punct	_	_
6	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	8	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	My	my	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	8	nmod:poss	_	_
8	lords	lord	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	13	nsubj:pass	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	8	punct	_	_
10	King	King	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	13	nsubj	_	_
11	Marsilas	Marsilas	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	10	flat	_	_
12	has	have	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	13	aux	_	_
13	sent	send	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	2	ccomp	_	_
14	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
15	embassy	embassy	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	obj	_	_
16	to	to	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
17	me	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	13	obl	_	_
18	with	with	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
19	many	many	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	22	amod	_	_
20	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	21	cc	_	_
21	rich	rich	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	19	conj	_	_
22	gifts	gift	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	13	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	24	punct	_	_
24	lions	lion	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	22	conj	_	_
25	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	26	cc	_	_
26	bears	bear	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	22	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	29	punct	_	_
28	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	29	cc	_	_
29	camels	camel	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	13	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
30	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	32	punct	_	_
31	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	32	cc	_	_
32	abundance	abundance	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	parataxis	_	_
33	of	of	ADP	IN	_	34	case	_	_
34	gold	gold	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	32	nmod	_	_
35	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	36	cc	_	_
36	silver	silver	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	34	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
37	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
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## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **say** *speech: assert* | past | the King |  |  |  | then | abundance of gold and silver *parataxis* | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 2 | **send** *in a quote* | present · perfect · passive |  | My lords | the King *= king* |  |  | with many gifts and lions and bears; camels *obl*; King *nsubj*; a embassy *obj* | vn send-11.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: subject=Destination embassy=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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