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# Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France, How King Charles Sent Huon on an Errand, sentence 111

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To Huon he said, for the young man knelt before him with much humbleness, "Will you do that thing which I command?"

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**Who acts:** Naymes, young man, Huon, thing · **What happens:** say, kneel, do, command · **To what, where:** Huon, thing · **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 King Charles Sent Huon on an Errand. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Naymes, young man, Huon, thing), 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:pg75339:38:111
# text = To Huon he said, for the young man knelt before him with much humbleness, "Will you do that thing which I command?"
1	To	to	ADP	IN	_	2	case	_	_
2	Huon	Huon	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	_
3	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	4	nsubj	_	_
4	said	say	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
6	for	for	SCONJ	IN	_	10	mark	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
8	young	young	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	9	amod	_	_
9	man	man	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	nsubj	_	_
10	knelt	kneel	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	ccomp	_	_
11	before	before	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
12	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	10	obl	_	_
13	with	with	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
14	much	much	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	15	amod	_	_
15	humbleness	humbleness	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	20	punct	_	_
17	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	20	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	Will	will	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	20	aux	_	_
19	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	20	nsubj	_	_
20	do	do	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	10	conj	_	_
21	that	that	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	22	det	_	_
22	thing	thing	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	obj	_	_
23	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	25	nsubj	_	_
24	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	25	nsubj	_	_
25	command	command	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	22	acl:relcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	20	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	20	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **say** *speech: ask* | past | Naymes |  | Huon |  |  |  | vn indicate-78-1 «NP V PP.recipient that S»: agent=Pivot to huon=Experiencer clause=Topic |
| 2 | **kneel** | past | the young man |  |  |  | before Naymes | with much humbleness | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent before he=Location |
| 3 | **do** *in a quote* | future | Huon | that thing |  |  |  |  | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent thing=Eventuality |
| 4 | **command** *in a quote* | present | that thing |  |  |  |  | I *nsubj* | vn supervision-95.2.2-1 «NP V NP.predicate»: agent=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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