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description: This done she showed them the Duke Aymon's treasure and bade them take of it as much as they needed. Who acts: This, treasure, sons, Duke Aymon. A sentence of «Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France» by Alfred John Church, How It Fared With the Brethren, with its dependency tree and t
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# Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France, How It Fared With the Brethren, sentence 141

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This done she showed them the Duke Aymon's treasure and bade them take of it as much as they needed.

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**Who acts:** This, treasure, sons, Duke Aymon · **What happens:** do, show, take, need, treasure · **To what, where:** sons, much · **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 It Fared With the Brethren. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (This, treasure, sons, Duke Aymon), 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:pg75339:5:141
# text = This done she showed them the Duke Aymon's treasure and bade them take of it as much as they needed.
1	This	this	PRON	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	4	nsubj	_	_
2	done	do	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	4	advcl	_	_
3	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	4	nsubj	_	_
4	showed	show	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	4	obj	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
7	Duke	Duke	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	8	compound	_	_
8	Aymon	Aymon	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	10	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	's	's	PART	POS	_	8	case	_	_
10	treasure	treasure	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	nsubj	_	_
11	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	12	cc	_	_
12	bade	bade	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	conj	_	_
13	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	14	nsubj	_	_
14	take	take	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	ccomp	_	_
15	of	of	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
16	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	14	obl	_	_
17	as	as	ADV	RB	_	18	advmod	_	_
18	much	much	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	14	obj	_	_
19	as	as	SCONJ	IN	_	21	mark	_	_
20	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	21	nsubj	_	_
21	needed	need	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	18	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **do** | participle | This *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **show** | past | This | sons *= son* |  |  |  | Duchess *nsubj* | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP S\_INF»: agent=Agent they=Recipient clause=Topic |
| 3 | **take** | present | the Duke Aymon's treasure and bade | much |  |  |  | of bade; sons *= son* *nsubj* | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP PP.initial\_location»: agent=Agent much=Theme of it=Initial\_Location |
| 4 | **need** | past | sons *= son* |  |  |  |  |  | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S\_INF»: agent=Pivot |
| 5 | **treasure** |  | the Duke Aymon |  |  |  |  |  | nom treasure «possession transitive»: poss=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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