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title: Not a word of counsel would he take, when some of his knights would… — Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of F… · tree and pragmatics
description: Not a word of counsel would he take, when some of his knights would put him in mind of the King's might, and of how he was in truth the King's man, holding of him this very town of Aygremont. " Who acts: word, some. A sentence of «Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France» by Alfred John
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# Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France, The Slaying of Lothair, sentence 63

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Not a word of counsel would he take, when some of his knights would put him in mind of the King's might, and of how he was in truth the King's man, holding of him this very town of Aygremont. "

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**Who acts:** word, some · **What happens:** take, put, be, hold, word · **To what, where:** truth man, word, mind, town, counsel

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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 (word, some), 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:pg75339:3:63
# text = Not a word of counsel would he take, when some of his knights would put him in mind of the King's might, and of how he was in truth the King's man, holding of him this very town of Aygremont. "
1	Not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	3	advmod	_	_
2	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	word	word	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	nsubj	_	_
4	of	of	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
5	counsel	counsel	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nmod	_	_
6	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	8	aux	_	_
7	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	8	nsubj	_	_
8	take	take	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
10	when	when	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	16	advmod	_	_
11	some	some	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	16	nsubj	_	_
12	of	of	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
13	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	14	nmod:poss	_	_
14	knights	knight	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	11	nmod	_	_
15	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	16	aux	_	_
16	put	put	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	8	conj	_	_
17	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	16	obj	_	_
18	in	in	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
19	mind	mind	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	obl	_	_
20	of	of	SCONJ	IN	_	24	mark	_	_
21	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	22	det	_	_
22	King	King	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	24	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	's	's	PART	POS	_	22	case	_	_
24	might	might	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	19	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	36	punct	_	_
26	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	36	cc	_	_
27	of	of	ADP	IN	_	32	case	_	_
28	how	how	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	32	advmod	_	_
29	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	32	nsubj	_	_
30	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	32	cop	_	_
31	in	in	ADP	IN	_	32	case	_	_
32	truth	truth	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	36	compound	_	_
33	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	34	det	_	_
34	King	King	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	36	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
35	's	's	PART	POS	_	34	case	_	_
36	man	man	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
37	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	38	punct	_	_
38	holding	hold	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	8	advcl	_	_
39	of	of	ADP	IN	_	40	case	_	_
40	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	38	obl	_	_
41	this	this	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	43	det	_	_
42	very	very	ADV	RB	_	43	advmod	_	_
43	town	town	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	38	obj	_	_
44	of	of	ADP	IN	_	45	case	_	_
45	Aygremont	Aygremont	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	43	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
46	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	8	punct	_	_
47	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	8	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **take** | would | a word of counsel | the King's truth man |  |  |  |  | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **put** | would | some of word's knights | word |  | mind |  |  | vn put-9.1-2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent he=Theme in mind=Destination |
| 3 | **is** | past | word |  |  |  |  | of truth | tree rules |
| 4 | **hold** | gerund | a word of counsel *not said here* | this town of Aygremont |  |  |  | of word | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent town=Theme |
| 5 | **word** |  |  | counsel |  |  |  |  | nom word «communication transitive»: of=patient |

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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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