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title: The purpose of his coming was to demand from the Admiral the tribute… — Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of F… · tree and pragmatics
description: The purpose of his coming was to demand from the Admiral the tribute that had been paid by custom to his brother. Who acts: Huon, purpose, custom. A sentence of «Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France» by Alfred John Church, How Huon Returned, His Errand Fulfilled, with its dependency
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# Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France, How Huon Returned, His Errand Fulfilled, sentence 45

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The purpose of his coming was to demand from the Admiral the tribute that had been paid by custom to his brother.

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**Who acts:** Huon, purpose, custom · **What happens:** come, be, pay · **To what, where:** purpose, Admiral, tribute

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This is a sentence of «Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France» by Alfred John Church, How Huon Returned, His Errand Fulfilled. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Huon, purpose, custom), 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:pg75339:42:45
# text = The purpose of his coming was to demand from the Admiral the tribute that had been paid by custom to his brother.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	purpose	purpose	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	nsubj	_	_
3	of	of	SCONJ	IN	_	5	mark	_	_
4	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Gender=Masc|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	5	nsubj	_	_
5	coming	come	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	2	acl	_	_
6	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	8	cop	_	_
7	to	to	PART	TO	_	8	mark	_	_
8	demand	demand	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
9	from	from	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
10	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
11	Admiral	Admiral	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	8	obl	_	_
12	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
13	tribute	tribute	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obj	_	_
14	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	17	nsubj:pass	_	_
15	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	17	aux	_	_
16	been	be	AUX	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	17	aux:pass	_	_
17	paid	pay	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	13	acl:relcl	_	_
18	by	by	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
19	custom	custom	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	obl	_	_
20	to	to	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
21	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	22	nmod:poss	_	_
22	brother	brother	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	8	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **come** | gerund | Huon | the purpose *not said here* |  |  |  |  | vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location purpose=Theme |
| 2 | **is** | past | the purpose |  |  | the Admiral |  | the tribute *obj*; demand *property* | tree rules |
| 3 | **pay** | past · perfect · passive | custom | the tribute |  |  |  | to Huon's brother | vn pay-68-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent subject=Asset |

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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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