--- title: When a friend repeats a royal legend, don't laugh at them; say "I he… — Kings, queens and emperors · tree and pragmatics description: When a friend repeats a royal legend, don't laugh at them; say "I heard that too, but I read it might have been made up by his enemies", and look it up together. Who acts: friend, you, I, enemies. 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The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (friend, you, I, enemies), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:myths:019-kings-queens-and-emperors.lesson:4 # text = When a friend repeats a royal legend, don't laugh at them; say "I heard that too, but I read it might have been made up by his enemies", and look it up together. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = myths # lesson = 019-kings-queens-and-emperors.lesson # annotation = Mova annot: Rust (en) → Haiku 5.5 (medium, Batches API) patches; gates UD 2.18; agreed by treeagree rules (Stanza, Trankit, spaCy trf): R5-strong ×1, R7-rel-agree ×1 1 When when SCONJ WRB _ 4 mark _ _ 2 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 3 det _ _ 3 friend friend NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 nsubj _ _ 4 repeats repeat VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 11 advcl _ _ 5 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 7 det _ _ 6 royal royal ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 7 amod _ _ 7 legend legend NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 obj _ _ 8 , , PUNCT , _ 4 punct _ _ 9 do do AUX VB Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin 11 aux _ _ 10 n't not PART RB Polarity=Neg 11 advmod _ _ 11 laugh laugh VERB VB Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 12 at at ADP IN _ 13 case _ _ 13 them they PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 11 obl _ _ 14 ; ; PUNCT , _ 15 punct _ _ 15 say say VERB VB Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin 11 conj _ _ 16 " " PUNCT `` _ 18 punct _ _ 17 I I PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 18 nsubj _ _ 18 heard hear VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 15 ccomp _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=15:parataxis 19 that that PRON DT PronType=Dem 18 obj _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=20:obj 20 too too ADV RB _ 18 advmod _ _ 21 , , PUNCT , _ 24 punct _ _ 22 but but CCONJ CC _ 24 cc _ _ 23 I I PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 24 nsubj _ _ 24 read read VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 18 conj _ _ 25 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 29 nsubj:pass _ _ 26 might might AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 29 aux _ _ 27 have have AUX VB VerbForm=Inf 29 aux _ _ 28 been be AUX VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part 29 aux:pass _ _ 29 made make VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 24 ccomp _ _ 30 up up ADP RP _ 29 compound:prt _ _ 31 by by ADP IN _ 33 case _ _ 32 his his PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 33 nmod:poss _ _ 33 enemies enemy NOUN NNS Number=Plur 29 obl _ _ 34 " " PUNCT '' _ 33 punct _ _ 35 , , PUNCT , _ 37 punct _ _ 36 and and CCONJ CC _ 37 cc _ _ 37 look look VERB VB Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin 11 conj _ _ 38 it it PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 37 obj _ _ 39 up up ADP RP _ 37 compound:prt _ _ 40 together together ADV RB _ 37 advmod _ _ 41 . . PUNCT . _ 11 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **repeat** | present | a friend | a royal legend | | | | | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent legend=Eventuality | | 2 | **not** **laugh** | imperative · do-support | you *not said here* | | | | | at stories *= story* | vn nonverbal\_expression-40.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 3 | **say** *speech: assert* | infinitive | you *not said here* | | | | | | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | | 4 | **hear** *in a quote* | past | I | that | | | | | vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer that=Stimulus | | 5 | **read** *in a quote* | past | I | | | | | | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | | 6 | **make up** *in a quote* | might · perfect · passive | Cleopatra's enemies | friend | | | | | vn comprise-107.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme subject=Pivot | | 7 | **look up** | infinitive | you *not said here* | friend | | | | together *property* | vn seem-109-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme it=Attribute | 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. **Licence: [CC BY-SA 4.0](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/)**, as the whole of Mova corpus 0.4, of which this treebank (the agreed school, `mova-school-agreed-en.conllu`) is part. The lessons were written for Mova's primary school. Sentence `school:myths:019-kings-queens-and-emperors.lesson:4`. **The tree:** Mova annot: Rust (en) → Haiku 5.5 (medium, Batches API) patches; gates UD 2.18; agreed by treeagree rules (Stanza, Trankit, spaCy trf): R5-strong ×1, R7-rel-agree ×1. **The frames** are read from the tree by Mova's frames reader (`prag`) when this page is built, the lesson read in order, so a pronoun may be resolved from an earlier sentence. See the [release 0.4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/releases/0.4/). - ← previous: [Kings, queens and emperors, 3](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/myths/19-kings-queens-and-emperors/3/) - next →: [Kings, queens and emperors, 5](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/myths/19-kings-queens-and-emperors/5/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/myths/19-kings-queens-and-emperors/)