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title: In the meanwhile they that desire so to do may go to their own homes… — Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of F… · tree and pragmatics
description: In the meanwhile they that desire so to do may go to their own homes, but let all be here on Midsummer Day." Who acts: Benes, desire, all. A sentence of «Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France» by Alfred John Church, How the Duke Benes Came By His End, with its dependency tree and the
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# Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France, How the Duke Benes Came By His End, sentence 19

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In the meanwhile they that desire so to do may go to their own homes, but let all be here on Midsummer Day."

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**Who acts:** Benes, desire, all · **What happens:** desire, do, go, let, be · **To what, where:** meanwhile, own homes

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This is a sentence of «Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France» by Alfred John Church, How the Duke Benes Came By His End. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Benes, desire, all), 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:pg75339:4:19
# text = In the meanwhile they that desire so to do may go to their own homes, but let all be here on Midsummer Day."
1	In	in	ADP	IN	_	3	case	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	meanwhile	meanwhile	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obl	_	_
4	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	6	nsubj	_	_
5	that	that	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	6	det	_	_
6	desire	desire	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	nsubj	_	_
7	so	so	ADV	RB	_	9	advmod	_	_
8	to	to	PART	TO	_	9	mark	_	_
9	do	do	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	6	acl:relcl	_	_
10	may	may	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	11	aux	_	_
11	go	go	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
12	to	to	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
13	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	15	nmod:poss	_	_
14	own	own	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	15	amod	_	_
15	homes	home	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	11	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	_
17	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	18	cc	_	_
18	let	let	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	11	parataxis	_	_
19	all	all	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	21	nsubj	_	_
20	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	21	cop	_	_
21	here	here	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	18	parataxis	_	_
22	on	on	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	_
23	Midsummer	Midsummer	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	24	compound	_	_
24	Day	Day	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	21	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	11	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	11	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **desire** |  | Benes *= bene* |  |  | the meanwhile |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **do** | to-infinitive | that desire *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **go** | may | that desire |  |  | Benes's own homes |  |  | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme to home=Initial\_Location |
| 4 | **let** | infinitive |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V PP.recipient»: agent=Agent |
| 5 | **is** | infinitive | all |  |  |  | on Midsummer Day | here *property* | tree rules |

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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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