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title: My father says, 'Come to Paris with five hundred knights, and make g… — Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of F… · tree and pragmatics
description: My father says, 'Come to Paris with five hundred knights, and make good your want of service in the parts of Lombardy, where, for lack of your help, many valiant men came by their death. Who acts: father, many valiant men, your, men. A sentence of «Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of Fran
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# Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France, The Slaying of Lothair, sentence 53

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My father says, 'Come to Paris with five hundred knights, and make good your want of service in the parts of Lombardy, where, for lack of your help, many valiant men came by their death.

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**Who acts:** father, many valiant men, your, men · **What happens:** say, come, make, want, lack, help · **To what, where:** Paris, good want, parts, service, help · **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 Slaying of Lothair. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (father, many valiant men, your, 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:pg75339:3:53
# text = My father says, 'Come to Paris with five hundred knights, and make good your want of service in the parts of Lombardy, where, for lack of your help, many valiant men came by their death.
1	My	my	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	2	nmod:poss	_	_
2	father	father	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
3	says	say	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	6	punct	_	_
5	'	'	PUNCT	``	_	6	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	Come	come	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	3	ccomp	_	_
7	to	to	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
8	Paris	Paris	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	6	obl	_	_
9	with	with	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
10	five	five	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	11	compound	_	_
11	hundred	hundred	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	12	nummod	_	_
12	knights	knight	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
14	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	15	cc	_	_
15	make	make	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	3	ccomp	_	_
16	good	good	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	18	amod	_	_
17	your	your	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	18	nmod:poss	_	_
18	want	want	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	obj	_	_
19	of	of	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
20	service	service	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	nmod	_	_
21	in	in	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
22	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	23	det	_	_
23	parts	part	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	15	obl	_	_
24	of	of	ADP	IN	_	25	case	_	_
25	Lombardy	Lombardy	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	23	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	27	punct	_	_
27	where	where	ADV	WRB	PronType=Rel	25	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	30	punct	_	_
29	for	for	ADP	IN	_	30	case	_	_
30	lack	lack	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	parataxis	_	_
31	of	of	ADP	IN	_	33	case	_	_
32	your	your	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	33	nmod:poss	_	_
33	help	help	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	30	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
34	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	38	punct	_	_
35	many	many	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	37	amod	_	_
36	valiant	valiant	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	37	amod	_	_
37	men	man	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	38	nsubj	_	_
38	came	come	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	30	conj	_	_
39	by	by	ADP	IN	_	41	case	_	_
40	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	41	nmod:poss	_	_
41	death	death	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	38	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
42	.	.	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: assert* | present | My father |  |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 2 | **come** | infinitive |  |  |  | Paris |  | with hundred knights | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme to paris=Initial\_Location |
| 3 | **make** | infinitive |  | your good want of service |  | the parts of Lombardy |  | lack of your help *parataxis* | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset want=Product |
| 4 | **come** | past | many valiant men |  |  |  |  | by men's death | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme by death=Location |
| 5 | **want** |  | your | service |  |  |  |  | nom want «state transitive»: poss=agent of=patient |
| 6 | **lack** |  |  | your help |  |  |  |  | nom lack «state transitive»: of=patient |
| 7 | **help** |  | your |  |  |  |  |  | nom help «act transitive»: poss=agent |
| 8 | **die** |  | men *= man* |  |  |  |  |  | nom death «event intransitive»: poss=agent |

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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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