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description: As soon as it was day King Charles bade his men break down all the things that the heathen counted holy. Who acts: truth, King, men, heathen. 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 th
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# Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France, How Charlemagne Sought Vengeance, sentence 212

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As soon as it was day King Charles bade his men break down all the things that the heathen counted holy.

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**Who acts:** truth, King, men, heathen · **What happens:** be, bade, break down, count · **To what, where:** things

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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 (truth, King, men, heathen), 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:pg75339:36:212
# text = As soon as it was day King Charles bade his men break down all the things that the heathen counted holy.
1	As	as	ADV	RB	_	2	advmod	_	_
2	soon	soon	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	9	advmod	_	_
3	as	as	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
4	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	6	nsubj	_	_
5	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	6	cop	_	_
6	day	day	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obl	_	_
7	King	King	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	9	nsubj	_	_
8	Charles	Charles	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	7	flat	_	_
9	bade	bade	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
10	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	11	nmod:poss	_	_
11	men	man	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	12	nsubj	_	_
12	break	break	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	9	ccomp	_	_
13	down	down	ADP	RP	_	12	compound:prt	_	_
14	all	all	DET	PDT	PronType=Tot	16	det:predet	_	_
15	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
16	things	thing	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	12	obj	_	_
17	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	20	obj	_	_
18	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	19	det	_	_
19	heathen	heathen	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	nsubj	_	_
20	counted	count	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	16	acl:relcl	_	_
21	holy	holy	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	20	xcomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	9	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | past | truth |  |  |  | as day |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **bade** | past | King |  |  |  |  | soon *property* | tree rules |
| 3 | **break down** | present | King's men | all things |  |  |  |  | vn break-45.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent thing=Patient |
| 4 | **count** | past | the heathen | all things |  |  |  | holy *property* | vn multiply-108 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent that=Theme |

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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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