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title: And the four answered, "So will we do, Sire;" and the King left with… — Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of F… · tree and pragmatics
description: And the four answered, "So will we do, Sire;" and the King left with them a thousand horsemen for a guard. Who acts: four, we, King. A sentence of «Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France» by Alfred John Church, How Charlemagne Sought Vengeance, with its dependency tree and the pragmat
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# Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France, How Charlemagne Sought Vengeance, sentence 15

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And the four answered, "So will we do, Sire;" and the King left with them a thousand horsemen for a guard.

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**Who acts:** four, we, King · **What happens:** answer, sire, leave · **To what, where:** thousand horsemen · **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, How Charlemagne Sought Vengeance. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (four, we, 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:pg75339:36:15
# text = And the four answered, "So will we do, Sire;" and the King left with them a thousand horsemen for a guard.
1	And	and	CCONJ	CC	_	4	cc	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	four	four	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	4	nsubj	_	_
4	answered	answer	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
6	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	12	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	So	so	ADV	RB	_	12	advmod	_	_
8	will	will	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	12	aux	_	_
9	we	we	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs	12	nsubj	_	_
10	do	do	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	12	aux	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
12	Sire	sire	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	4	ccomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	12	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	12	punct	_	_
15	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	18	cc	_	_
16	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
17	King	King	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	18	nsubj	_	_
18	left	leave	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	conj	_	_
19	with	with	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
20	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	18	obl	_	_
21	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	22	det	_	_
22	thousand	thousand	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	23	nummod	_	_
23	horsemen	horseman	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	18	obj	_	_
24	for	for	ADP	IN	_	26	case	_	_
25	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	26	det	_	_
26	guard	guard	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **answer** *speech: assert* | past | the four |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **sire** *in a quote* | future · do-support | we |  |  |  |  |  | vn birth-28.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **leave** | past | the King | thousand horsemen |  |  |  | with warriors *= warrior*; for a guard | vn fulfilling-13.4.1 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent horseman=Theme for guard=Recipient |

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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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