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title: The Vizier, with many thousands of armed men, took ship--I saw them… — Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of F… · tree and pragmatics
description: The Vizier, with many thousands of armed men, took ship--I saw them with my own eyes--because they were not content to accept the law of Christ. Who acts: Vizier, I, men. A sentence of «Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France» by Alfred John Church, Of the Plot Against Roland, with its
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# Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France, Of the Plot Against Roland, sentence 6

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The Vizier, with many thousands of armed men, took ship--I saw them with my own eyes--because they were not content to accept the law of Christ.

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**Who acts:** Vizier, I, men · **What happens:** take, see, not be, accept · **To what, where:** ship, men, law

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This is a sentence of «Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France» by Alfred John Church, Of the Plot Against Roland. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Vizier, I, men), 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:pg75339:29:6
# text = The Vizier, with many thousands of armed men, took ship--I saw them with my own eyes--because they were not content to accept the law of Christ.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	Vizier	Vizier	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	11	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	6	punct	_	_
4	with	with	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
5	many	many	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	amod	_	_
6	thousands	thousand	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	appos	_	_
7	of	of	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
8	armed	armed	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	9	amod	_	_
9	men	man	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	2	punct	_	_
11	took	take	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
12	ship	ship	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	--	--	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	15	nsubj	_	_
15	saw	see	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	11	parataxis	_	_
16	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	15	obj	_	_
17	with	with	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
18	my	my	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	20	nmod:poss	_	_
19	own	own	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	20	amod	_	_
20	eyes	eye	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	15	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	--	--	PUNCT	,	_	26	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	because	because	SCONJ	IN	_	26	mark	_	_
23	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	26	nsubj	_	_
24	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	26	cop	_	_
25	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	26	advmod	_	_
26	content	content	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	15	conj	_	_
27	to	to	PART	TO	_	28	mark	_	_
28	accept	accept	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	26	csubj	_	_
29	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	30	det	_	_
30	law	law	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	28	obj	_	_
31	of	of	ADP	IN	_	32	case	_	_
32	Christ	Christ	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	30	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
33	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	11	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **take** | past | the Vizier | ship |  |  |  |  | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent ship=Theme |
| 2 | **see** | past | I | men *= man* |  |  |  | with my own eyes | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer they=Stimulus |
| 3 | **not** **is** | past | men *= man* |  |  |  |  | content *property* | tree rules |
| 4 | **accept** | to-infinitive |  | the law of Christ |  |  |  |  | vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent law=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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