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title: Then the King said to another of the Barons, "You hold Bavaria of me… — Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of F… · tree and pragmatics
description: Then the King said to another of the Barons, "You hold Bavaria of me, and are bound to serve me with three thousand men. Who acts: King, another. A sentence of «Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France» by Alfred John Church, Of the Craft of Mawgis, with its dependency tree and the prag
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# Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France, Of the Craft of Mawgis, sentence 113

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Then the King said to another of the Barons, "You hold Bavaria of me, and are bound to serve me with three thousand men.

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**Who acts:** King, another · **What happens:** say, hold, bind, serve · **To what, where:** another, Bavaria, King · **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 Craft of Mawgis. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (King, another), 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:pg75339:8:113
# text = Then the King said to another of the Barons, "You hold Bavaria of me, and are bound to serve me with three thousand men.
1	Then	then	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	4	advmod	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	King	King	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
4	said	say	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	to	to	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
6	another	another	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	4	obl	_	_
7	of	of	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
9	Barons	Baron	PROPN	NNPS	Number=Plur	6	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
11	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	13	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	You	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	13	nsubj	_	_
13	hold	hold	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	conj	_	_
14	Bavaria	Bavaria	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	13	obj	_	_
15	of	of	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
16	me	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	14	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	20	punct	_	_
18	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	20	cc	_	_
19	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	20	aux:pass	_	_
20	bound	bind	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	4	conj	_	_
21	to	to	PART	TO	_	22	mark	_	_
22	serve	serve	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	20	xcomp	_	_
23	me	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	22	obj	_	_
24	with	with	ADP	IN	_	27	case	_	_
25	three	three	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	26	compound	_	_
26	thousand	thousand	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	27	nummod	_	_
27	men	man	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	22	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **say** *speech: assert* | past | the King |  | another of the Barons |  | then |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V PP.recipient S-Quote»: agent=Agent to another=Recipient |
| 2 | **hold** *in a quote* | present | another of the Barons *= another* | Bavaria of me |  |  |  |  | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent bavaria=Theme |
| 3 | **bind** *in a quote* | present · passive | the King *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 4 | **serve** *in a quote* | to-infinitive | the King *not said here* |  | the King *= king* |  |  | with thousand men | vn fulfilling-13.4.1-1 «NP V NP-Fulfilling PP.theme»: agent=Agent i=Recipient with man=Theme |

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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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