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# Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France, How Huon, Having Slain a Giant, Came to Babylon, sentence 97

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The Admiral said to his lords, "What shall we do with this fellow?" and the lords answered with one voice, "Let him be slain forthwith."

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**Who acts:** Admiral, we, lords · **What happens:** say, do, answer, let, be · **To what, where:** lords, Huon · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of «Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France» by Alfred John Church, How Huon, Having Slain a Giant, Came to Babylon. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Admiral, we, lords), 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:pg75339:41:97
# text = The Admiral said to his lords, "What shall we do with this fellow?" and the lords answered with one voice, "Let him be slain forthwith."
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	Admiral	admiral	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
3	said	say	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	to	to	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
5	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	6	nmod:poss	_	_
6	lords	lord	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
8	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	12	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	What	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	12	obj	_	_
10	shall	shall	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	12	aux	_	_
11	we	we	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs	12	nsubj	_	_
12	do	do	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	3	ccomp	_	_
13	with	with	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
14	this	this	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	15	det	_	_
15	fellow	fellow	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	12	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	12	punct	_	_
18	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	21	cc	_	_
19	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	20	det	_	_
20	lords	lord	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	21	nsubj	_	_
21	answered	answer	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	_
22	with	with	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	_
23	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	24	nummod	_	_
24	voice	voice	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	27	punct	_	_
26	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	27	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	Let	let	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	3	ccomp	_	_
28	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	27	obj	_	_
29	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	30	cop	_	_
30	slain	slain	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	31	amod	_	_
31	forthwith	forthwith	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	27	xcomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
32	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	27	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
33	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	27	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **say** *speech: ask* | past | the Admiral |  | Huon's lords |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V PP.recipient S-Quote»: agent=Agent to lord=Recipient clause=Topic |
| 2 | **do** *in a quote* | shall | we |  |  |  |  | with this fellow; What *obj* | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent what=Eventuality |
| 3 | **answer** *speech: assert* | past | the lords |  |  |  |  | with one voice | vn reciprocate-112-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 4 | **let** *in a quote* | infinitive |  | Huon |  |  |  | forthwith *property* | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Theme |
| 5 | **is** *in a quote* | infinitive |  |  |  |  |  | slain *property* | tree rules |

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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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