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title: After supper the King commanded that the Twelve Peers should watch M… — Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of F… · tree and pragmatics
description: After supper the King commanded that the Twelve Peers should watch Mawgis through the night. Who acts: King, Twelve Peers. 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 pragmatics of every clause.
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# Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France, More Deeds of Mawgis, sentence 36

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After supper the King commanded that the Twelve Peers should watch Mawgis through the night.

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**Who acts:** King, Twelve Peers · **What happens:** command, watch · **To what, where:** 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, Twelve Peers), 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:pg75339:9:36
# text = After supper the King commanded that the Twelve Peers should watch Mawgis through the night.
1	After	after	ADP	IN	_	2	case	_	_
2	supper	supper	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obl	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	King	King	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	_
5	commanded	command	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
6	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	11	mark	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
8	Twelve	twelve	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	9	nummod	_	_
9	Peers	Peer	PROPN	NNPS	Number=Plur	11	nsubj	_	_
10	should	should	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	11	aux	_	_
11	watch	watch	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	5	advcl	_	_
12	Mawgis	Mawgis	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	11	obj	_	_
13	through	through	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
14	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
15	night	night	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **command** | past | the King |  |  |  | after supper |  | vn supervision-95.2.2-1 «NP V NP.predicate»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **watch** | should | the Twelve Peers | Mawgis |  |  | night |  | vn assessment-34.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent mawgis=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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