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title: The Barons said, "Sir, you must greatly desire the death of him whom… — Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of F… · tree and pragmatics
description: The Barons said, "Sir, you must greatly desire the death of him whom you send on such an errand." Who acts: Barons, you, Sir. A sentence of «Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France» by Alfred John Church, How King Charles Sent Huon on an Errand, with its dependency tree and the pragmat
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# Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France, How King Charles Sent Huon on an Errand, sentence 119

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The Barons said, "Sir, you must greatly desire the death of him whom you send on such an errand."

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**Who acts:** Barons, you, Sir · **What happens:** say, desire, send, die · **To what, where:** death, errand · **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 (Barons, you, Sir), 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:pg75339:38:119
# text = The Barons said, "Sir, you must greatly desire the death of him whom you send on such an errand."
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	Barons	Baron	PROPN	NNPS	Number=Plur	3	nsubj	_	_
3	said	say	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	6	punct	_	_
5	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	6	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	Sir	Sir	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	vocative	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
8	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	11	nsubj	_	_
9	must	must	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	11	aux	_	_
10	greatly	greatly	ADV	RB	_	11	advmod	_	_
11	desire	desire	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	3	ccomp	_	_
12	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
13	death	death	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	obj	_	_
14	of	of	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
15	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	13	nmod	_	_
16	whom	whom	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	18	obj	_	_
17	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	18	nsubj	_	_
18	send	send	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	13	acl:relcl	_	_
19	on	on	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
20	such	such	DET	PDT	PronType=Ind	22	det:predet	_	_
21	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	22	det	_	_
22	errand	errand	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	11	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	11	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **say** *speech: assert* | past | the Barons |  |  |  |  | Sir *vocative* | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 2 | **desire** *in a quote* | must | you | the death of Sir |  |  |  | greatly *property* | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot death=Theme |
| 3 | **send** *in a quote* | present | you | the death of Sir |  | such errand |  |  | vn confine-92-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent whom=Theme |
| 4 | **die** *in a quote* |  | Sir |  |  |  |  |  | nom death «event intransitive»: of=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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