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title: And bid him come to me; I will give him useful counsel about King Ch… — Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of F… · tree and pragmatics
description: And bid him come to me; I will give him useful counsel about King Charles; and take him the keys of this city of Saragossa. Who acts: I. 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 pra
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# Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France, How Charlemagne Sought Vengeance, sentence 92

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And bid him come to me; I will give him useful counsel about King Charles; and take him the keys of this city of Saragossa.

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**Who acts:** I · **What happens:** bid, come, give, take · **To what, where:** Spain, me, useful counsel

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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 (I), 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:pg75339:36:92
# text = And bid him come to me; I will give him useful counsel about King Charles; and take him the keys of this city of Saragossa.
1	And	and	CCONJ	CC	_	2	cc	_	_
2	bid	bid	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	obj	_	_
4	come	come	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	2	xcomp	_	_
5	to	to	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
6	me	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	4	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
8	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	10	nsubj	_	_
9	will	will	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	10	aux	_	_
10	give	give	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	4	conj	_	_
11	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	10	iobj	_	_
12	useful	useful	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	13	amod	_	_
13	counsel	counsel	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obj	_	_
14	about	about	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
15	King	King	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	16	nmod:desc	_	_
16	Charles	Charles	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	13	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	19	punct	_	_
18	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	19	cc	_	_
19	take	take	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	2	parataxis	_	_
20	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	19	obj	_	_
21	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	22	det	_	_
22	keys	key	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	19	obj	_	_
23	of	of	ADP	IN	_	25	case	_	_
24	this	this	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	25	det	_	_
25	city	city	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	nmod	_	_
26	of	of	ADP	IN	_	27	case	_	_
27	Saragossa	Saragossa	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	25	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **bid** | past |  | Spain |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **come** | infinitive |  |  | me |  |  |  | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme to i=Initial\_Location |
| 3 | **give** | future | I | useful counsel | Spain |  |  | about Charles  King | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent he=Recipient counsel=Theme |
| 4 | **take** | infinitive |  | Spain |  |  |  | the keys of this city of Saragossa *obj* | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP ADVP»: agent=Instrument he=Theme key=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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