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title: Well done, Sons of France!" cried Turpin the Archbishop, when he saw… — Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of F… · tree and pragmatics
description: Well done, Sons of France!" cried Turpin the Archbishop, when he saw them lay on in such sort. Who acts: done Sons, Count, Sons. A sentence of «Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France» by Alfred John Church, The Battle, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France, The Battle, sentence 44

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Well done, Sons of France!" cried Turpin the Archbishop, when he saw them lay on in such sort.

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**Who acts:** done Sons, Count, Sons · **What happens:** do, cry, see, lay on · **To what, where:** Archbishop, Sons, such sort

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This is a sentence of «Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France» by Alfred John Church, The Battle. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (done Sons, Count, Sons), 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:pg75339:31:44
# text = Well done, Sons of France!" cried Turpin the Archbishop, when he saw them lay on in such sort.
1	Well	well	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	2	advmod	_	_
2	done	do	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	4	amod	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	2	punct	_	_
4	Sons	son	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	9	nsubj	_	_
5	of	of	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
6	France	France	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	!	!	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	4	punct	_	_
9	cried	cry	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
10	Turpin	Turpin	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	9	flat	_	_
11	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
12	Archbishop	Archbishop	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	9	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
14	when	when	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	16	advmod	_	_
15	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	16	nsubj	_	_
16	saw	see	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	9	conj	_	_
17	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	16	obj	_	_
18	lay	lay	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	16	xcomp	_	_
19	on	on	ADP	RP	_	18	compound:prt	_	_
20	in	in	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
21	such	such	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	22	amod	_	_
22	sort	sort	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	9	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **do** | participle |  |  |  |  |  | well *property* | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **cry** *speech: express* *in a quote* | past | done Sons of France | the Archbishop |  |  |  | Turpin *flat* | vn manner\_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **see** *in a quote* | past | Count | Sons *= son* |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 4 | **lay on** *in a quote* | infinitive | Sons *= son* *not said here* |  |  | such sort |  |  | vn put\_spatial-9.2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent in sort=Destination |

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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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