--- title: And now take the keys of this city, and give them to King Charles; w… — Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of F… · tree and pragmatics description: And now take the keys of this city, and give them to King Charles; when you present these treasures to him deliver to him also these twenty hostages, only see that Roland be put in the rearguard." "' Who acts: you. 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"' **Who acts:** you · **What happens:** take, give, present, deliver, see, put · **To what, where:** keys, treasures, King, twenty hostages, that, rearguard · **Speech:** someone speaks here 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 (you), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. **Mova's own parse.** This tree may be wrong. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = book:pg75339:28:143 # text = And now take the keys of this city, and give them to King Charles; when you present these treasures to him deliver to him also these twenty hostages, only see that Roland be put in the rearguard." "' 1 And and CCONJ CC _ 3 cc _ _ 2 now now ADV RB PronType=Dem 3 advmod _ _ 3 take take VERB VB Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 4 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 5 det _ _ 5 keys key NOUN NNS Number=Plur 3 obj _ _ 6 of of ADP IN _ 8 case _ _ 7 this this DET DT Number=Sing|PronType=Dem 8 det _ _ 8 city city NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 nmod _ SpaceAfter=No 9 , , PUNCT , _ 11 punct _ _ 10 and and CCONJ CC _ 11 cc _ _ 11 give give VERB VB Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin 3 conj _ _ 12 them they PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 11 iobj _ _ 13 to to ADP IN _ 15 case _ _ 14 King King PROPN NNP Number=Sing 15 nmod:desc _ _ 15 Charles Charles PROPN NNP Number=Sing 11 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 16 ; ; PUNCT , _ 19 punct _ _ 17 when when ADV WRB PronType=Int 19 advmod _ _ 18 you you PRON PRP Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs 19 nsubj _ _ 19 present present VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 3 parataxis _ _ 20 these this DET DT Number=Plur|PronType=Dem 21 det _ _ 21 treasures treasure NOUN NNS Number=Plur 19 obj _ _ 22 to to ADP IN _ 23 case _ _ 23 him he PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 19 obl _ _ 24 deliver deliver VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 19 conj _ _ 25 to to ADP IN _ 26 case _ _ 26 him he PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 24 obl _ _ 27 also also ADV RB _ 30 advmod _ _ 28 these this DET DT Number=Plur|PronType=Dem 30 det _ _ 29 twenty twenty NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 30 nummod _ _ 30 hostages hostage NOUN NNS Number=Plur 24 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 31 , , PUNCT , _ 33 punct _ _ 32 only only ADV RB _ 33 advmod _ _ 33 see see VERB VB Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin 3 conj _ _ 34 that that PRON DT Number=Sing|PronType=Dem 37 nsubj:pass _ _ 35 Roland Roland PROPN NNP Number=Sing 37 nsubj:pass _ _ 36 be be AUX VB VerbForm=Inf 37 aux:pass _ _ 37 put put VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 33 ccomp _ _ 38 in in ADP IN _ 40 case _ _ 39 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 40 det _ _ 40 rearguard rearguard NOUN NN Number=Sing 37 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 41 . . PUNCT . _ 3 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 42 " " PUNCT '' _ 3 punct _ _ 43 " " PUNCT `` _ 3 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 44 ' ' PUNCT '' _ 3 punct _ SpaceAfter=No ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **take** | imperative | you *not said here* | the keys of this city | | | now | | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent key=Theme | | 2 | **give** | infinitive | you *not said here* | | keys *= key* | | | to Charles King | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent they=Theme to charles=Recipient | | 3 | **present** | present | you | this treasures | King | | | | vn fulfilling-13.4.1 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent treasure=Theme to he=Recipient | | 4 | **deliver** | infinitive | you *not said here* | this twenty hostages | King | | | | vn send-11.1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent to he=Destination | | 5 | **see** | infinitive | you *not said here* | | | | | | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus | | 6 | **put** | infinitive · passive | | that | | the rearguard | | Roland *nsubj:pass* | vn put-9.1-2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: subject=Theme in rearguard=Destination | 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. **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. - ← previous: [sentence 142](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg75339/28/142/) - next →: [sentence 144](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg75339/28/144/) - ↑ back to [The Treason of Ganelon](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg75339/28/)