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title: So Guenes departed, having four thousand men with him, and met the D… — Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of F… · tree and pragmatics
description: So Guenes departed, having four thousand men with him, and met the Duke and his company in the Valley of Soissons. Who acts: Guenes. 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 pragm
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# Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France, How the Duke Benes Came By His End, sentence 89

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So Guenes departed, having four thousand men with him, and met the Duke and his company in the Valley of Soissons.

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**Who acts:** Guenes · **What happens:** depart, have, meet · **To what, where:** thousand men, 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 (Guenes), 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:pg75339:4:89
# text = So Guenes departed, having four thousand men with him, and met the Duke and his company in the Valley of Soissons.
1	So	so	ADV	RB	_	3	advmod	_	_
2	Guenes	Guenes	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
3	departed	depart	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	5	punct	_	_
5	having	have	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	3	advcl	_	_
6	four	four	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	7	compound	_	_
7	thousand	thousand	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	8	nummod	_	_
8	men	man	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	obj	_	_
9	with	with	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
10	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	5	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
12	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	13	cc	_	_
13	met	meet	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	_
14	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
15	Duke	Duke	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	13	obj	_	_
16	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	18	cc	_	_
17	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	18	nmod:poss	_	_
18	company	company	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	conj	_	_
19	in	in	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
20	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	21	det	_	_
21	Valley	Valley	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	18	nmod	_	_
22	of	of	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
23	Soissons	Soisson	PROPN	NNPS	Number=Plur	21	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **depart** | past | Guenes |  |  |  |  |  | vn escape-51.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **have** | gerund | Guenes *not said here* | thousand men |  |  |  | with Guenes | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent man=Patient |
| 3 | **meet** | past | Guenes *not said here* | the Duke and Guenes's company in the Valley of Soissons |  |  |  |  | vn meet-36.3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent duke=Co-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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