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title: Then King Charles called the thirty knights, and said to them, "I pa… — Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of F… · tree and pragmatics
description: Then King Charles called the thirty knights, and said to them, "I pardon Duke Benes and his brothers. Who acts: Charles. 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 pragmatics of eve
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# Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France, How the Duke Benes Came By His End, sentence 75

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Then King Charles called the thirty knights, and said to them, "I pardon Duke Benes and his brothers.

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**Who acts:** Charles · **What happens:** call, say, pardon · **To what, where:** thirty knights, chief, Duke · **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 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 (Charles), 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:pg75339:4:75
# text = Then King Charles called the thirty knights, and said to them, "I pardon Duke Benes and his brothers.
1	Then	then	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	4	advmod	_	_
2	King	King	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	nmod:desc	_	_
3	Charles	Charles	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
4	called	call	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
6	thirty	thirty	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	7	nummod	_	_
7	knights	knight	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
9	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	10	cc	_	_
10	said	say	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	conj	_	_
11	to	to	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
12	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	10	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
14	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	16	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	16	nsubj	_	_
16	pardon	pardon	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	10	conj	_	_
17	Duke	Duke	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	16	obj	_	_
18	Benes	Benes	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	17	flat	_	_
19	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	21	cc	_	_
20	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	21	nmod:poss	_	_
21	brothers	brother	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	17	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **call** | past | Charles  King |  | the thirty knights |  | then |  | vn initiate\_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent knight=Recipient |
| 2 | **say** *speech: assert* | past | Charles  King *not said here* |  | chief |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V PP.recipient S-Quote»: agent=Agent to they=Recipient |
| 3 | **pardon** *in a quote* | present | Charles  King *= charles* | Duke and Charles's brothers |  |  |  |  | vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent duke=Theme |

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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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