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title: Tidings of these things came to the Duke Benes, and he sent to his b… — Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of F… · tree and pragmatics
description: Tidings of these things came to the Duke Benes, and he sent to his brethren, Gerard and Bron, that they should come to his help. Who acts: Tidings, desire. 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 depend
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# Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France, How the Duke Benes Came By His End, sentence 20

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Tidings of these things came to the Duke Benes, and he sent to his brethren, Gerard and Bron, that they should come to his help.

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**Who acts:** Tidings, desire · **What happens:** come, send, help · **To what, where:** Duke Benes, brethren, help

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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 (Tidings, desire), 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:pg75339:4:20
# text = Tidings of these things came to the Duke Benes, and he sent to his brethren, Gerard and Bron, that they should come to his help.
1	Tidings	tiding	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	nsubj	_	_
2	of	of	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
3	these	this	DET	DT	Number=Plur|PronType=Dem	4	det	_	_
4	things	thing	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	1	nmod	_	_
5	came	come	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
6	to	to	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
8	Duke	Duke	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	9	compound	_	_
9	Benes	Benes	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	5	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
11	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	13	cc	_	_
12	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	13	nsubj	_	_
13	sent	send	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	parataxis	_	_
14	to	to	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
15	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	16	nmod:poss	_	_
16	brethren	brethren	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	_
18	Gerard	Gerard	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	16	appos	_	_
19	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	20	cc	_	_
20	Bron	Bron	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	18	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	25	punct	_	_
22	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	25	mark	_	_
23	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	25	nsubj	_	_
24	should	should	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	25	aux	_	_
25	come	come	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	13	conj	_	_
26	to	to	ADP	IN	_	28	case	_	_
27	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	28	nmod:poss	_	_
28	help	help	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
29	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **come** | past | Tidings of this things |  |  | the Duke Benes |  |  | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme to benes=Initial\_Location |
| 2 | **send** | past | desire |  |  | desire's brethren |  |  | vn confine-92-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent to brethren=Destination |
| 3 | **come** | should | Tidings *= tiding* |  |  | desire's help |  |  | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme to help=Initial\_Location |
| 4 | **help** |  | desire |  |  |  |  |  | nom help «act transitive»: poss=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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