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title: Some seven days before the Feast of St. John Baptist the Duke Benes… — Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of F… · tree and pragmatics
description: Some seven days before the Feast of St. John Baptist the Duke Benes set out from Aygremont that he might present himself according to his promise before King Charles. Who acts: seven days, Duke. A sentence of «Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France» by Alfred John Church, How the Duke
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# Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France, How the Duke Benes Came By His End, sentence 81

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Some seven days before the Feast of St. John Baptist the Duke Benes set out from Aygremont that he might present himself according to his promise before King Charles.

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**Who acts:** seven days, Duke · **What happens:** set out, present, accord, promise · **To what, where:** Aygremont, Duke

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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 (seven days, Duke), 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:pg75339:4:81
# text = Some seven days before the Feast of St. John Baptist the Duke Benes set out from Aygremont that he might present himself according to his promise before King Charles.
1	Some	some	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	3	det	_	_
2	seven	seven	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	3	nummod	_	_
3	days	day	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	14	nsubj	_	_
4	before	before	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	Feast	feast	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nmod	_	_
7	of	of	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
8	St.	St.	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	9	nmod:desc	_	_
9	John	John	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	6	nmod	_	_
10	Baptist	Baptist	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	9	flat	_	_
11	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
12	Duke	Duke	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	9	conj	_	_
13	Benes	Benes	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	12	flat	_	_
14	set	set	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
15	out	out	ADP	RP	_	14	compound:prt	_	_
16	from	from	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
17	Aygremont	Aygremont	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	14	obl	_	_
18	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	21	mark	_	_
19	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	21	nsubj	_	_
20	might	might	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	21	aux	_	_
21	present	present	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	14	advcl	_	_
22	himself	himself	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs|Reflex=Yes	21	obj	_	_
23	according	accord	VERB	VBG	ExtPos=ADP|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	26	case	_	_
24	to	to	ADP	IN	_	23	fixed	_	_
25	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	26	nmod:poss	_	_
26	promise	promise	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	obl	_	_
27	before	before	ADP	IN	_	29	case	_	_
28	King	King	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	29	nmod:desc	_	_
29	Charles	Charles	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	21	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
30	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	14	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **set out** | past | some seven days before the Feast of John  St. and the Duke |  |  | Aygremont |  |  | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme from aygremont=Initial\_Location |
| 2 | **present** | might | Duke | Duke |  |  | before Charles  King | accord Duke's promise | vn fulfilling-13.4.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent himself=Theme |
| 3 | **accord** | gerund |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn future\_having-13.3 «NP V NP.theme (PP)»: agent=Agent |
| 4 | **promise** |  | Duke |  |  |  |  |  | nom promise «communication 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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