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title: King Marsilas stood up from his throne, and went into the orchard ha… — Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of F… · tree and pragmatics
description: King Marsilas stood up from his throne, and went into the orchard hard by, bidding the chief of his counsellors follow him. Who acts: King, chief. 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 the pra
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# Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France, The Treason of Ganelon, sentence 69

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King Marsilas stood up from his throne, and went into the orchard hard by, bidding the chief of his counsellors follow him.

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**Who acts:** King, chief · **What happens:** stand up, go, bid, follow · **To what, where:** throne, orchard, King

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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, chief), 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:pg75339:28:69
# text = King Marsilas stood up from his throne, and went into the orchard hard by, bidding the chief of his counsellors follow him.
1	King	King	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
2	Marsilas	Marsilas	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	1	flat	_	_
3	stood	stand	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	up	up	ADP	RP	_	3	compound:prt	_	_
5	from	from	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
6	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	7	nmod:poss	_	_
7	throne	throne	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
9	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	10	cc	_	_
10	went	go	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	_
11	into	into	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
12	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
13	orchard	orchard	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obl	_	_
14	hard	hard	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	10	advmod	_	_
15	by	by	ADP	IN	_	10	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	_
17	bidding	bid	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	10	advcl	_	_
18	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	19	det	_	_
19	chief	chief	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	nsubj	_	_
20	of	of	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
21	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	22	nmod:poss	_	_
22	counsellors	counsellor	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	19	nmod	_	_
23	follow	follow	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	17	ccomp	_	_
24	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	23	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **stand up** | past | King |  |  | King's throne |  |  | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **go** | past | King *not said here* |  |  | the orchard |  | hard *property* | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme into orchard=Initial\_Location |
| 3 | **bid** | gerund | King *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 4 | **follow** | present | the chief of King's counsellors | King |  |  |  |  | vn chase-51.6 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=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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