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title: When they were come to the gate, they called the porter and said to… — Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of F… · tree and pragmatics
description: When they were come to the gate, they called the porter and said to him, "We be knights of the King, and would fain speak with Sir Reynaud." Who acts: 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 tr
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# Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France, More Deeds of Mawgis, sentence 66

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When they were come to the gate, they called the porter and said to him, "We be knights of the King, and would fain speak with Sir Reynaud."

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**Who acts:** Barons, We · **What happens:** come, call, say, be, speak · **To what, where:** Barons, porter, Montalban, knights · **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 (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:pg75339:9:66
# text = When they were come to the gate, they called the porter and said to him, "We be knights of the King, and would fain speak with Sir Reynaud."
1	When	when	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	4	advmod	_	_
2	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	4	nsubj	_	_
3	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	aux:pass	_	_
4	come	come	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
5	to	to	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	gate	gate	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
9	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	10	nsubj	_	_
10	called	call	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	parataxis	_	_
11	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
12	porter	porter	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obj	_	_
13	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	14	cc	_	_
14	said	say	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	10	conj	_	_
15	to	to	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
16	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	14	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	21	punct	_	_
18	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	21	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	We	we	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs	21	nsubj	_	_
20	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	21	cop	_	_
21	knights	knight	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	14	obl	_	_
22	of	of	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	_
23	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	24	det	_	_
24	King	King	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	21	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	28	punct	_	_
26	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	28	cc	_	_
27	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	28	aux	_	_
28	fain	fain	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	parataxis	_	_
29	speak	speak	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	28	xcomp	_	_
30	with	with	ADP	IN	_	32	case	_	_
31	Sir	Sir	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	32	nmod:desc	_	_
32	Reynaud	Reynaud	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	29	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
33	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	28	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
34	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	28	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **come** | past · passive |  | Barons *= baron* |  |  |  | to the gate | tree rules |
| 2 | **call** | past | Barons *= baron* | the porter |  |  |  |  | vn initiate\_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent porter=Recipient |
| 3 | **say** *speech: assert* | past | Barons *= baron* *not said here* |  | Montalban |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V PP.recipient S-Quote»: agent=Agent to he=Recipient |
| 4 | **is a** *in a quote* | infinitive | We | knights |  |  |  | of the King | tree rules |
| 5 | **speak** *speech: other* *in a quote* | infinitive |  |  |  |  |  | with Reynaud  Sir | vn talk-37.5 «NP V PP.co-agent»: agent=Agent with reynaud=Co-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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