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title: The King said to his Barons: "Now cause that they make a gallows, so… — Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of F… · tree and pragmatics
description: The King said to his Barons: "Now cause that they make a gallows, so that I may hang this Mawgis or ever we sup." " Who acts: King, Barons, we. A sentence of «Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France» by Alfred John Church, More Deeds of Mawgis, with its dependency tree and the pragmati
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# Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France, More Deeds of Mawgis, sentence 21

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The King said to his Barons: "Now cause that they make a gallows, so that I may hang this Mawgis or ever we sup." "

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**Who acts:** King, Barons, we · **What happens:** say, cause, make, hang, sup · **To what, where:** Barons, gallows, Mawgis · **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, More Deeds 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, Barons, we), 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:pg75339:9:21
# text = The King said to his Barons: "Now cause that they make a gallows, so that I may hang this Mawgis or ever we sup." "
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	King	King	PROPN	NNP	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	Barons	baron	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	10	punct	_	_
8	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	10	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	Now	now	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	10	advmod	_	_
10	cause	cause	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	3	ccomp	_	_
11	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	13	mark	_	_
12	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	13	nsubj	_	_
13	make	make	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	10	advcl	_	_
14	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
15	gallows	gallows	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	13	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	21	punct	_	_
17	so	so	SCONJ	IN	ExtPos=SCONJ	21	mark	_	_
18	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	17	fixed	_	_
19	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	21	nsubj	_	_
20	may	may	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	21	aux	_	_
21	hang	hang	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	10	parataxis	_	_
22	this	this	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	23	det	_	_
23	Mawgis	Mawgis	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	21	obj	_	_
24	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	27	cc	_	_
25	ever	ever	ADV	RB	PronType=Ind	27	advmod	_	_
26	we	we	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs	27	nsubj	_	_
27	sup	sup	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	23	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	21	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
29	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	21	punct	_	_
30	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	10	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
```

## 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 |  | King's Barons |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V PP.recipient S-Quote»: agent=Agent to baron=Recipient clause=Topic |
| 2 | **cause** *in a quote* | present |  |  |  |  | now |  | vn result-27.2 «NP V PP»: agent=Precondition |
| 3 | **make** *in a quote* | present | Barons *= baron* | a gallows |  |  |  |  | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset gallows=Product |
| 4 | **hang** *in a quote* | may | the King *= king* | this Mawgis |  |  |  |  | vn poison-42.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent mawgis=Patient |
| 5 | **sup** *in a quote* | present | we |  |  |  | ever |  | vn dine-39.5 «NP V»: agent=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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