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title: A great slaughter did they make of the pagans, but they that were wi… — Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of F… · tree and pragmatics
description: A great slaughter did they make of the pagans, but they that were willing to be christened King Oberon saved alive. Who acts: great slaughter, Gerames, King. 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 de
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# Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France, Of the End of the False Duke Macaire, sentence 91

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A great slaughter did they make of the pagans, but they that were willing to be christened King Oberon saved alive.

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**Who acts:** great slaughter, Gerames, King · **What happens:** make, be, christen, save

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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 (great slaughter, Gerames, King), 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:pg75339:40:91
# text = A great slaughter did they make of the pagans, but they that were willing to be christened King Oberon saved alive.
1	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	great	great	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	slaughter	slaughter	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nsubj	_	_
4	did	do	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	6	aux	_	_
5	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	6	nsubj	_	_
6	make	make	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
7	of	of	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
9	pagans	pagan	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
11	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	15	cc	_	_
12	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	15	nsubj	_	_
13	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	15	nsubj	_	_
14	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	15	cop	_	_
15	willing	willing	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	conj	_	_
16	to	to	PART	TO	_	18	mark	_	_
17	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	18	aux:pass	_	_
18	christened	christen	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	15	xcomp	_	_
19	King	King	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	21	nsubj	_	_
20	Oberon	Oberon	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	19	flat	_	_
21	saved	save	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	18	ccomp	_	_
22	alive	alive	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	21	xcomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **make** | past · do-support | a great slaughter |  |  |  |  | of the pagans; Gerames *= gerame* *nsubj* | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset |
| 2 | **is** | past | Gerames *= gerame* |  |  |  |  | that *nsubj*; willing *property* | tree rules |
| 3 | **christen** | to-infinitive · passive | Gerames *= gerame* *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 4 | **save** | past | King |  |  |  |  | alive *property* | vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=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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