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description: When King John had received the letter with the mantles, he commanded a hundred knights to make themselves ready to ride with him to the Castle of Montalban. Who acts: John, King, knights. A sentence of «Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France» by Alfred John Church, Of the Treachery o
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# Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France, Of the Treachery of King John, sentence 54

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When King John had received the letter with the mantles, he commanded a hundred knights to make themselves ready to ride with him to the Castle of Montalban.

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**Who acts:** John, King, knights · **What happens:** receive, command, make, ride · **To what, where:** letter, hundred knights, knights, Castle · **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, Of the Treachery of King John. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (John, King, knights), 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:pg75339:7:54
# text = When King John had received the letter with the mantles, he commanded a hundred knights to make themselves ready to ride with him to the Castle of Montalban.
1	When	when	SCONJ	WRB	_	5	mark	_	_
2	King	King	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	nmod:desc	_	_
3	John	John	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	_
4	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	aux	_	_
5	received	receive	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	13	advcl	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	letter	letter	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obj	_	_
8	with	with	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
9	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
10	mantles	mantle	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	7	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	5	punct	_	_
12	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	13	nsubj	_	_
13	commanded	command	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
14	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
15	hundred	hundred	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	16	nummod	_	_
16	knights	knight	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	13	obj	_	_
17	to	to	PART	TO	_	18	mark	_	_
18	make	make	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	13	advcl	_	_
19	themselves	themselves	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs|Reflex=Yes	18	obj	_	_
20	ready	ready	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	18	xcomp	_	_
21	to	to	PART	TO	_	22	mark	_	_
22	ride	ride	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	20	xcomp	_	_
23	with	with	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	_
24	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	22	obl	_	_
25	to	to	ADP	IN	_	27	case	_	_
26	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	27	det	_	_
27	Castle	Castle	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	22	obl	_	_
28	of	of	ADP	IN	_	29	case	_	_
29	Montalban	Montalban	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	27	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
30	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	13	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **receive** | past · perfect | John  King | the letter |  |  |  | with the mantles | vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent letter=Theme |
| 2 | **command** | past | King | hundred knights |  |  |  |  | vn supervision-95.2.2-1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent knight=Theme |
| 3 | **make** | to-infinitive | King *not said here* | knights *= knight* |  |  |  | ready *property* | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset themselves=Product |
| 4 | **ride** | to-infinitive | knights *= knight* *not said here* |  |  | the Castle of Montalban |  | with King | vn nonvehicle-51.4.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent to castle=Trajectory |

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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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