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title: Send therefore messengers to Bordeaux and bid them come to your Court. — Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of F… · tree and pragmatics
description: Send therefore messengers to Bordeaux and bid them come to your Court. Who acts: you. 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 pragmatics of every clause.
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# Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France, How King Charles Sent Huon on an Errand, sentence 14

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Send therefore messengers to Bordeaux and bid them come to your Court.

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**Who acts:** you · **What happens:** send, bid, come · **To what, where:** messengers, Bordeaux, Court

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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 (you), 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:pg75339:38:14
# text = Send therefore messengers to Bordeaux and bid them come to your Court.
1	Send	send	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
2	therefore	therefore	ADV	RB	_	1	advmod	_	_
3	messengers	messenger	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	1	obj	_	_
4	to	to	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
5	Bordeaux	Bordeaux	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	1	obl	_	_
6	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	7	cc	_	_
7	bid	bid	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	1	conj	_	_
8	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	7	obj	_	_
9	come	come	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	7	xcomp	_	_
10	to	to	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
11	your	your	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	12	nmod:poss	_	_
12	Court	court	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	1	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **send** | imperative | you *not said here* | messengers | Bordeaux |  |  | therefore *property* | vn confine-92-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent messenger=Theme to bordeaux=Destination |
| 2 | **bid** | past | you *not said here* | messengers *= messenger* |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **come** | infinitive | you *not said here* |  |  | your Court |  |  | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme to court=Initial\_Location |

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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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