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title: Send a message to King Charles promising him faithful service and fr… — Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of F… · tree and pragmatics
description: Send a message to King Charles promising him faithful service and friendship. Who acts: you. 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 dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France, How Ganelon Went on an Errand to King Marsilas, sentence 7

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Send a message to King Charles promising him faithful service and friendship.

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**Who acts:** you · **What happens:** send, promise · **To what, where:** message, Charles, faithful service, King

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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), 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:pg75339:27:7
# text = Send a message to King Charles promising him faithful service and friendship.
1	Send	send	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
2	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	message	message	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	obj	_	_
4	to	to	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
5	King	King	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	6	nmod:desc	_	_
6	Charles	Charles	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	1	obl	_	_
7	promising	promise	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	1	advcl	_	_
8	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	7	obj	_	_
9	faithful	faithful	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	10	amod	_	_
10	service	service	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obj	_	_
11	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	12	cc	_	_
12	friendship	friendship	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	.	.	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* | a message | Charles  King |  |  |  | vn confine-92-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent message=Theme to charles=Destination |
| 2 | **promise** *speech: promise* | gerund | you *not said here* | faithful service and friendship | King |  |  |  | vn future\_having-13.3 «NP V NP.goal NP»: agent=Agent he=Goal service=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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