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title: When the King shall come to see this field of battle, for one of us… — Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of F… · tree and pragmatics
description: When the King shall come to see this field of battle, for one of us that he shall find dead there shall be full fifteen of the Saracens. Who acts: King. A sentence of «Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France» by Alfred John Church, How Oliver Was Slain, with its dependency tree and the
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# Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France, How Oliver Was Slain, sentence 31

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When the King shall come to see this field of battle, for one of us that he shall find dead there shall be full fifteen of the Saracens.

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**Who acts:** King · **What happens:** come, see, find, be · **To what, where:** field, full fifteen

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This is a sentence of «Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France» by Alfred John Church, How Oliver Was Slain. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (King), 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:pg75339:33:31
# text = When the King shall come to see this field of battle, for one of us that he shall find dead there shall be full fifteen of the Saracens.
1	When	when	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	5	advmod	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	King	King	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	_
4	shall	shall	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	5	aux	_	_
5	come	come	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
6	to	to	PART	TO	_	7	mark	_	_
7	see	see	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	5	xcomp	_	_
8	this	this	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	9	det	_	_
9	field	field	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obj	_	_
10	of	of	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
11	battle	battle	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
13	for	for	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
14	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	7	obl	_	_
15	of	of	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
16	us	we	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs	14	nmod	_	_
17	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	20	mark	_	_
18	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	20	nsubj	_	_
19	shall	shall	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	20	aux	_	_
20	find	find	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	14	advcl	_	_
21	dead	dead	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	20	xcomp	_	_
22	there	there	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	20	advmod	_	_
23	shall	shall	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	26	aux	_	_
24	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	26	cop	_	_
25	full	full	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	26	amod	_	_
26	fifteen	fifteen	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	14	parataxis	_	_
27	of	of	ADP	IN	_	29	case	_	_
28	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	29	det	_	_
29	Saracens	Saracen	PROPN	NNPS	Number=Plur	26	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
30	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **come** | shall | the King |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **see** | to-infinitive | the King *not said here* | this field of battle |  |  |  | for one of us | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer field=Stimulus |
| 3 | **find** | shall | King |  |  | there |  | dead *property* | vn declare-29.4-1-1 «NP V what S\_INF»: agent=Agent |
| 4 | **is a** | shall |  | full fifteen |  |  |  | of the Saracens | tree rules |

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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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