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title: You are overproud," answered Reynaud, "maybe I shall abate your high… — Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of F… · tree and pragmatics
description: You are overproud," answered Reynaud, "maybe I shall abate your high thoughts." Who acts: You, I, your. A sentence of «Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France» by Alfred John Church, How Mawgis Became a Hermit, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France, How Mawgis Became a Hermit, sentence 13

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You are overproud," answered Reynaud, "maybe I shall abate your high thoughts."

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**Who acts:** You, I, your · **What happens:** be, answer, abate, think · **To what, where:** Reynaud, high thoughts · **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, How Mawgis Became a Hermit. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (You, I, your), 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:pg75339:10:13
# text = You are overproud," answered Reynaud, "maybe I shall abate your high thoughts."
1	You	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
2	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	3	cop	_	_
3	overproud	overproud	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	6	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	6	punct	_	_
6	answered	answer	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	parataxis	_	_
7	Reynaud	Reynaud	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	6	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
9	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	13	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	maybe	maybe	ADV	RB	_	13	advmod	_	_
11	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	13	nsubj	_	_
12	shall	shall	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	13	aux	_	_
13	abate	abate	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	6	conj	_	_
14	your	your	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	16	nmod:poss	_	_
15	high	high	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	16	amod	_	_
16	thoughts	thought	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	13	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | present | You |  |  |  |  | overproud *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **answer** *speech: assert* *in a quote* | past |  |  | Reynaud |  |  |  | vn reciprocate-112-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent reynaud=Eventuality |
| 3 | **abate** | shall | I | your high thoughts |  |  |  | maybe *property* | vn other\_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent thought=Patient |
| 4 | **think** |  | your |  |  |  |  |  | nom thought «cognition transitive»: poss=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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