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# Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France, How Ganelon Went on an Errand to King Marsilas, sentence 9

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Let there be lions and bears, and dogs, seven hundred camels, and a thousand falcons.

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**Who acts:** you · **What happens:** let, be · **To what, where:** dogs, lions

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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:pg75339:27:9
# text = Let there be lions and bears, and dogs, seven hundred camels, and a thousand falcons.
1	Let	let	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
2	there	there	PRON	EX	PronType=Dem	4	expl	_	_
3	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	4	cop	_	_
4	lions	lion	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	1	obj	_	_
5	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	6	cc	_	_
6	bears	bear	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	9	punct	_	_
8	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	9	cc	_	_
9	dogs	dog	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	1	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
11	seven	seven	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	12	compound	_	_
12	hundred	hundred	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	13	nummod	_	_
13	camels	camel	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	9	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	_
15	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	18	cc	_	_
16	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
17	thousand	thousand	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	18	nummod	_	_
18	falcons	falcon	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	9	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	1	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **let** | imperative | you *not said here* | dogs and hundred camels and thousand falcons |  |  |  |  | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent dog=Theme |
| 2 | **is a** | infinitive |  | lions and bears |  | there |  | bears *conj* | tree rules |

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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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