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title: So the judges came as he commanded, and were gathered together on th… — Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of F… · tree and pragmatics
description: So the judges came as he commanded, and were gathered together on the Feast of St. Silvester, which was the last day of December. Who acts: judges, King, Silvester. A sentence of «Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France» by Alfred John Church, Of the Punishment of Ganelon, with its dep
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# Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France, Of the Punishment of Ganelon, sentence 2

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So the judges came as he commanded, and were gathered together on the Feast of St. Silvester, which was the last day of December.

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**Who acts:** judges, King, Silvester · **What happens:** come, command, gather, be · **To what, where:** Feast, last day · **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, Of the Punishment of Ganelon. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (judges, King, Silvester), 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:pg75339:37:2
# text = So the judges came as he commanded, and were gathered together on the Feast of St. Silvester, which was the last day of December.
1	So	so	ADV	RB	_	4	advmod	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	judges	judge	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	nsubj	_	_
4	came	come	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	as	as	SCONJ	IN	_	7	mark	_	_
6	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	7	nsubj	_	_
7	commanded	command	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
9	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	11	cc	_	_
10	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	11	aux:pass	_	_
11	gathered	gather	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	4	conj	_	_
12	together	together	ADV	RB	_	11	advmod	_	_
13	on	on	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
14	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
15	Feast	feast	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	obl	_	_
16	of	of	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
17	St.	St.	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	18	nmod:desc	_	_
18	Silvester	Silvester	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	15	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	24	punct	_	_
20	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	24	nsubj	_	_
21	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	24	cop	_	_
22	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	24	det	_	_
23	last	last	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	24	amod	_	_
24	day	day	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	appos	_	_
25	of	of	ADP	IN	_	26	case	_	_
26	December	December	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	24	nmod	_	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 | **come** | past | the judges |  |  |  |  |  | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **command** | past | King |  |  |  |  |  | vn supervision-95.2.2-1 «NP V NP.predicate»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **gather** | past · passive | the judges *not said here* |  |  | the Feast of Silvester  St. |  | together *property* | vn herd-47.5.2 «NP V» |
| 4 | **is a** | past | Silvester  St. | the last day |  |  | december |  | 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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