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# Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France, How King Charles Sent Huon on an Errand, sentence 20

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Then went Amaury to Prince Charlot and said: "I had thought to win for you the Duchy of Bordeaux.

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**Who acts:** I · **What happens:** go, say, think, win · **To what, where:** Charlot, Duchy · **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 (I), 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:pg75339:38:20
# text = Then went Amaury to Prince Charlot and said: "I had thought to win for you the Duchy of Bordeaux.
1	Then	then	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	2	advmod	_	_
2	went	go	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	Amaury	Amaury	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	flat	_	_
4	to	to	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
5	Prince	Prince	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	6	nmod:desc	_	_
6	Charlot	Charlot	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	obl	_	_
7	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	8	cc	_	_
8	said	say	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	2	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	13	punct	_	_
10	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	13	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	13	nsubj	_	_
12	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	13	aux	_	_
13	thought	think	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	8	conj	_	_
14	to	to	PART	TO	_	15	mark	_	_
15	win	win	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	13	xcomp	_	_
16	for	for	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
17	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Person=2|PronType=Prs	15	obl	_	_
18	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	19	det	_	_
19	Duchy	Duchy	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	15	obj	_	_
20	of	of	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
21	Bordeaux	Bordeaux	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	19	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **go** | past |  |  |  | Charlot  Prince | then | Amaury *flat* | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme to charlot=Initial\_Location |
| 2 | **say** *speech: assert* | past |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **think** *speech: other* *in a quote* | past · perfect | I |  |  |  |  |  | vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V how S\_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Theme |
| 4 | **win** *in a quote* | to-infinitive | I *not said here* | the Duchy of Bordeaux |  |  |  | for you | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP PP.beneficiary»: agent=Agent duchy=Theme for you=Beneficiary |

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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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