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title: When they were all assembled he bade the Serjeants fetch Ganelon out… — Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of F… · tree and pragmatics
description: When they were all assembled he bade the Serjeants fetch Ganelon out of his prison, and bring him before the judges. Who acts: King, Serjeants. A sentence of «Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France» by Alfred John Church, Of the Punishment of Ganelon, with its dependency tree and the 
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# Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France, Of the Punishment of Ganelon, sentence 3

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When they were all assembled he bade the Serjeants fetch Ganelon out of his prison, and bring him before the judges.

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**Who acts:** King, Serjeants · **What happens:** assemble, bade, fetch, bring · **To what, where:** judges, Ganelon, prison, King

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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 (King, Serjeants), 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:pg75339:37:3
# text = When they were all assembled he bade the Serjeants fetch Ganelon out of his prison, and bring him before the judges.
1	When	when	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	5	advmod	_	_
2	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	5	nsubj:pass	_	_
3	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	aux:pass	_	_
4	all	all	ADV	RB	_	5	advmod	_	_
5	assembled	assemble	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	7	advcl	_	_
6	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	7	nsubj	_	_
7	bade	bade	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
9	Serjeants	serjeant	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	10	nsubj	_	_
10	fetch	fetch	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	7	ccomp	_	_
11	Ganelon	Ganelon	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	10	obj	_	_
12	out	out	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
13	of	of	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
14	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	15	nmod:poss	_	_
15	prison	prison	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	_
17	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	18	cc	_	_
18	bring	bring	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	10	conj	_	_
19	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	18	obj	_	_
20	before	before	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
21	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	22	det	_	_
22	judges	judge	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	18	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	7	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **assemble** | past · passive |  | judges *= judge* |  |  |  | all *property* | vn herd-47.5.2 «NP V NP.theme»: subject=Theme |
| 2 | **bade** | past | King |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **fetch** | present | the Serjeants | Ganelon |  | King's prison |  |  | vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent ganelon=Theme |
| 4 | **bring** | infinitive | the Serjeants *not said here* | King |  | the judges |  |  | vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent he=Theme before judge=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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