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title: Ten only were left alive, and these were spared upon this condition,… — Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of F… · tree and pragmatics
description: Ten only were left alive, and these were spared upon this condition, that they should take the body of the Duke to his town of Aygremont, even as the body of Prince Lothair had been taken by ten of his knights to the town of Paris. Who acts: knights. A sentence of «Stories of Charlemagne and the twe
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# Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France, How the Duke Benes Came By His End, sentence 98

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Ten only were left alive, and these were spared upon this condition, that they should take the body of the Duke to his town of Aygremont, even as the body of Prince Lothair had been taken by ten of his knights to the town of Paris.

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**Who acts:** knights · **What happens:** leave, spare, take · **To what, where:** Ten, these, body, town

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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 (knights), 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:pg75339:4:98
# text = Ten only were left alive, and these were spared upon this condition, that they should take the body of the Duke to his town of Aygremont, even as the body of Prince Lothair had been taken by ten of his knights to the town of Paris.
1	Ten	ten	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	4	nsubj:pass	_	_
2	only	only	ADV	RB	_	4	advmod	_	_
3	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	aux:pass	_	_
4	left	leave	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
5	alive	alive	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	xcomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
7	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	10	cc	_	_
8	these	this	PRON	DT	Number=Plur|PronType=Dem	10	nsubj:pass	_	_
9	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	10	aux:pass	_	_
10	spared	spare	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	4	conj	_	_
11	upon	upon	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
12	this	this	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	13	det	_	_
13	condition	condition	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	_
15	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	18	mark	_	_
16	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	18	nsubj	_	_
17	should	should	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	18	aux	_	_
18	take	take	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	10	conj	_	_
19	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	20	det	_	_
20	body	body	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	obj	_	_
21	of	of	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
22	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	23	det	_	_
23	Duke	Duke	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	20	nmod	_	_
24	to	to	ADP	IN	_	26	case	_	_
25	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	26	nmod:poss	_	_
26	town	town	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	obl	_	_
27	of	of	ADP	IN	_	28	case	_	_
28	Aygremont	Aygremont	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	26	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
29	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	33	punct	_	_
30	even	even	ADV	RB	_	33	advmod	_	_
31	as	as	ADP	IN	_	33	case	_	_
32	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	33	det	_	_
33	body	body	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	39	nsubj	_	_
34	of	of	ADP	IN	_	35	case	_	_
35	Prince	Prince	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	33	nmod	_	_
36	Lothair	Lothair	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	35	flat	_	_
37	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	39	aux	_	_
38	been	be	AUX	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	39	aux:pass	_	_
39	taken	take	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	4	parataxis	_	_
40	by	by	ADP	IN	_	41	case	_	_
41	ten	ten	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	39	obl	_	_
42	of	of	ADP	IN	_	44	case	_	_
43	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	44	nmod:poss	_	_
44	knights	knight	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	41	nmod	_	_
45	to	to	ADP	IN	_	47	case	_	_
46	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	47	det	_	_
47	town	town	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	44	nmod	_	_
48	of	of	ADP	IN	_	49	case	_	_
49	Paris	Paris	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	47	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
50	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **leave** | past · passive |  | Ten |  |  |  | alive *property* | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme |
| 2 | **spare** | past · passive |  | these |  |  |  | upon this condition | vn bill-54.5 «NP V NP NP.asset»: subject=Asset |
| 3 | **take** | should | knights *= knight* | the body of the Duke |  | Duke's town of Aygremont |  |  | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent body=Theme to town=Destination |
| 4 | **take** | past · perfect · passive |  | the body of Prince |  |  |  | by ten of Duke's knights to the town of Paris | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: subject=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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