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# Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France, How Ganelon Went on an Errand to King Marsilas, sentence 84

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Tis my command"; and he spake again, "Whom shall we send to King Marsilas, my lords?" "

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**Who acts:** Tis, we, my · **What happens:** speak, send, command · **To what, where:** Tis, 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 (Tis, we, my), 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:pg75339:27:84
# text = Tis my command"; and he spake again, "Whom shall we send to King Marsilas, my lords?" "
1	Tis	Tis	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
2	my	my	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	3	nmod:poss	_	_
3	command	command	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	appos	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	1	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	8	punct	_	_
6	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	8	cc	_	_
7	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	8	nsubj	_	_
8	spake	speak	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	appos	_	_
9	again	again	ADV	RB	_	8	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
11	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	15	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	Whom	whom	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	15	obj	_	_
13	shall	shall	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	15	aux	_	_
14	we	we	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs	15	nsubj	_	_
15	send	send	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	1	parataxis	_	_
16	to	to	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
17	King	King	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	15	obl	_	_
18	Marsilas	Marsilas	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	17	flat	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	21	punct	_	_
20	my	my	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	21	nmod:poss	_	_
21	lords	lord	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	15	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	21	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	21	punct	_	_
24	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	15	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **speak** *speech: other* *in a quote* |  | Tis |  |  |  | again |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **send** | shall | we | Tis | King |  |  | my lords *obj* | vn send-11.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent whom=Destination lord=Theme |
| 4 | **command** |  | my |  |  |  |  |  | nom command «communication transitive»: poss=agent |

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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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