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title: Then Roland, having bethought himself awhile, said to Reynaud, "Will… — Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of F… · tree and pragmatics
description: Then Roland, having bethought himself awhile, said to Reynaud, "Will you do me a courteous turn, and I will some day, if you should need it, do the same to you." Who acts: Roland, Reynaud. A sentence of «Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France» by Alfred John Church, How Mawgis Became 
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# Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France, How Mawgis Became a Hermit, sentence 32

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Then Roland, having bethought himself awhile, said to Reynaud, "Will you do me a courteous turn, and I will some day, if you should need it, do the same to you."

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**Who acts:** Roland, Reynaud · **What happens:** bethink, say, do, day, need · **To what, where:** Roland, Reynaud, courteous turn, turn, same · **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 (Roland, Reynaud), 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:pg75339:10:32
# text = Then Roland, having bethought himself awhile, said to Reynaud, "Will you do me a courteous turn, and I will some day, if you should need it, do the same to you."
1	Then	then	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	9	advmod	_	_
2	Roland	Roland	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	9	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	5	punct	_	_
4	having	have	AUX	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	5	aux	_	_
5	bethought	bethink	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	2	acl	_	_
6	himself	himself	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs|Reflex=Yes	5	obj	_	_
7	awhile	awhile	ADV	RB	_	5	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	2	punct	_	_
9	said	say	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
10	to	to	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
11	Reynaud	Reynaud	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	9	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
13	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	16	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	Will	will	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	16	aux	_	_
15	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	16	nsubj	_	_
16	do	do	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	9	conj	_	_
17	me	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	16	iobj	_	_
18	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	20	det	_	_
19	courteous	courteous	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	20	amod	_	_
20	turn	turn	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	26	punct	_	_
22	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	26	cc	_	_
23	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	26	nsubj	_	_
24	will	will	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	26	aux	_	_
25	some	some	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	26	det	_	_
26	day	day	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	31	punct	_	_
28	if	if	SCONJ	IN	_	31	mark	_	_
29	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	31	nsubj	_	_
30	should	should	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	31	aux	_	_
31	need	need	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	9	ccomp	_	_
32	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	31	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
33	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	34	punct	_	_
34	do	do	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	31	conj	_	_
35	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	36	det	_	_
36	same	same	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	34	obj	_	_
37	to	to	ADP	IN	_	38	case	_	_
38	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Person=2|PronType=Prs	34	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
39	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	31	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
40	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	31	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **bethink** | gerund · perfect | Roland *not said here* | Roland |  |  |  | awhile *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **say** *speech: assert* | past | Roland |  | Reynaud |  | then |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V PP.recipient S-Quote»: agent=Agent to reynaud=Recipient clause=Topic |
| 3 | **do** *in a quote* | future | Reynaud | a courteous turn | Roland |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 4 | **day** *in a quote* | future | Roland |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 5 | **need** *a condition, not said to happen, in a quote* | should | Reynaud | turn |  |  |  |  | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot it=Theme |
| 6 | **do** *in a quote* | infinitive | Reynaud *not said here* | the same | Reynaud |  |  |  | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent same=Eventuality |

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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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