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title: But the greater part readily obeyed the King's command, and were mad… — Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of F… · tree and pragmatics
description: But the greater part readily obeyed the King's command, and were made good Christians, one hundred thousand of them at the least. Who acts: greater part, King. A sentence of «Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France» by Alfred John Church, How Charlemagne Sought Vengeance, with its depe
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# Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France, How Charlemagne Sought Vengeance, sentence 215

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But the greater part readily obeyed the King's command, and were made good Christians, one hundred thousand of them at the least.

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**Who acts:** greater part, King · **What happens:** obey, make, command · **To what, where:** command, good Christians · **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 (greater part, 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:pg75339:36:215
# text = But the greater part readily obeyed the King's command, and were made good Christians, one hundred thousand of them at the least.
1	But	but	CCONJ	CC	_	6	cc	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
3	greater	great	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	4	amod	_	_
4	part	part	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nsubj	_	_
5	readily	readily	ADV	RB	_	6	advmod	_	_
6	obeyed	obey	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	King	King	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	10	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	's	's	PART	POS	_	8	case	_	_
10	command	command	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
12	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	14	cc	_	_
13	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	14	aux:pass	_	_
14	made	make	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	6	conj	_	_
15	good	good	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	16	amod	_	_
16	Christians	Christian	PROPN	NNPS	Number=Plur	14	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	20	punct	_	_
18	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	19	compound	_	_
19	hundred	hundred	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	20	compound	_	_
20	thousand	thousand	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	6	obl	_	_
21	of	of	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
22	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	20	nmod	_	_
23	at	at	ADP	IN	_	25	case	_	_
24	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	25	det	_	_
25	least	least	ADJ	JJS	Degree=Sup	20	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **obey** | past | the greater part | the King's command |  |  |  | hundred thousand of Christians at the least *obl*; readily *property* | vn abide\_by-93.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent command=Theme |
| 2 | **make** | past · passive | the greater part *not said here* | good Christians |  |  |  |  | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP» |
| 3 | **command** |  | the King |  |  |  |  |  | nom command «communication transitive»: poss=agent |

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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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