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title: King Marsilas said to his treasurer, "Have you made ready the presen… — Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of F… · tree and pragmatics
description: King Marsilas said to his treasurer, "Have you made ready the presents that I purpose to send to King Charles?" Who acts: King, treasurer, ready presents. A sentence of «Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France» by Alfred John Church, The Treason of Ganelon, with its dependency tree and
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# Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France, The Treason of Ganelon, sentence 137

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King Marsilas said to his treasurer, "Have you made ready the presents that I purpose to send to King Charles?"

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**Who acts:** King, treasurer, ready presents · **What happens:** say, make, purpose, send · **To what, where:** treasurer, Charles · **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, The Treason of Ganelon. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (King, treasurer, ready presents), 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:pg75339:28:137
# text = King Marsilas said to his treasurer, "Have you made ready the presents that I purpose to send to King Charles?"
1	King	King	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
2	Marsilas	Marsilas	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	1	flat	_	_
3	said	say	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	to	to	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
5	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	6	nmod:poss	_	_
6	treasurer	treasurer	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
8	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	11	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	Have	have	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	11	aux	_	_
10	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	11	nsubj	_	_
11	made	make	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	3	ccomp	_	_
12	ready	ready	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	14	amod	_	_
13	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
14	presents	present	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	17	nsubj	_	_
15	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	17	nsubj	_	_
16	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	17	nsubj	_	_
17	purpose	purpose	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	ccomp	_	_
18	to	to	PART	TO	_	19	mark	_	_
19	send	send	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	17	acl	_	_
20	to	to	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
21	King	King	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	22	nmod:desc	_	_
22	Charles	Charles	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	19	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **say** *speech: ask* | past | King |  | King's treasurer |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V PP.recipient S-Quote»: agent=Agent to treasurer=Recipient clause=Topic |
| 2 | **make** *in a quote* | present · perfect | King's treasurer *= treasurer* |  |  |  |  |  | vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **purpose** *speech: other* *in a quote* |  | the ready presents |  |  |  |  | that *nsubj*; I *nsubj* | tree rules |
| 4 | **send** *in a quote* | to-infinitive | King's treasurer *= treasurer* *not said here* |  | Charles  King |  |  |  | vn confine-92-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent to charles=Destination |

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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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