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title: And the prisoners fell on the company that was gathered at dinner wi… — Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of F… · tree and pragmatics
description: And the prisoners fell on the company that was gathered at dinner with the Duke, and slew them. Who acts: prisoners. A sentence of «Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France» by Alfred John Church, Of the End of the False Duke Macaire, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every
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# Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France, Of the End of the False Duke Macaire, sentence 69

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And the prisoners fell on the company that was gathered at dinner with the Duke, and slew them.

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**Who acts:** prisoners · **What happens:** fall, gather, slay · **To what, where:** company, dinner, prisoners

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This is a sentence of «Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France» by Alfred John Church, Of the End of the False Duke Macaire. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (prisoners), 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:pg75339:40:69
# text = And the prisoners fell on the company that was gathered at dinner with the Duke, and slew them.
1	And	and	CCONJ	CC	_	4	cc	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	prisoners	prisoner	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	nsubj	_	_
4	fell	fall	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	on	on	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	company	company	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	_
8	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	10	nsubj:pass	_	_
9	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	10	aux:pass	_	_
10	gathered	gather	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	7	acl:relcl	_	_
11	at	at	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
12	dinner	dinner	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obl	_	_
13	with	with	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
14	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
15	Duke	Duke	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	12	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	_
17	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	18	cc	_	_
18	slew	slay	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	conj	_	_
19	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	18	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **fall** | past | the prisoners |  |  | the company |  |  | vn occur-48.3 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme on company=Location |
| 2 | **gather** | past · passive |  | the company |  | dinner with the Duke |  |  | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP PP.source NP.asset»: subject=Theme at dinner=Asset |
| 3 | **slay** | past | the prisoners *not said here* | prisoners *= prisoner* |  |  |  |  | vn murder-42.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Patient |

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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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