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" **Who acts:** Roland, you · **What happens:** speak, say, be, leave, fight · **To what, where:** first, field · **Speech:** someone speaks here 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, you), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. **Mova's own parse.** This tree may be wrong. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = book:pg75339:10:9 # text = Roland spake the first, and said, "Be sure, Sir Reynaud, that when you leave the field this day, you will so leave it that you will never again fight with me or any other man." " 1 Roland Roland PROPN NNP Number=Sing 2 nsubj _ _ 2 spake speak VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 3 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 4 det _ _ 4 first first ADJ JJ Degree=Pos|NumForm=Word|NumType=Ord 2 obl:unmarked _ SpaceAfter=No 5 , , PUNCT , _ 7 punct _ _ 6 and and CCONJ CC _ 7 cc _ _ 7 said say VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 2 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 8 , , PUNCT , _ 11 punct _ _ 9 " " PUNCT `` _ 11 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 10 Be be AUX VB VerbForm=Inf 11 cop _ _ 11 sure sure ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 7 ccomp _ SpaceAfter=No 12 , , PUNCT , _ 13 punct _ _ 13 Sir Sir PROPN NNP Number=Sing 11 ccomp _ _ 14 Reynaud Reynaud PROPN NNP Number=Sing 13 flat _ SpaceAfter=No 15 , , PUNCT , _ 19 punct _ _ 16 that that PRON DT Number=Sing|PronType=Dem 17 nsubj _ _ 17 when when ADV WRB PronType=Int 19 advmod _ _ 18 you you PRON PRP Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs 19 nsubj _ _ 19 leave leave VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 2 parataxis _ _ 20 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 21 det _ _ 21 field field NOUN NN Number=Sing 19 obj _ _ 22 this this DET DT Number=Sing|PronType=Dem 23 det _ _ 23 day day NOUN NN Number=Sing 19 obl:unmarked _ SpaceAfter=No 24 , , PUNCT , _ 28 punct _ _ 25 you you PRON PRP Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs 28 nsubj _ _ 26 will will AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 28 aux _ _ 27 so so ADV RB _ 28 advmod _ _ 28 leave leave VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 19 conj _ _ 29 it it PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 28 obj _ _ 30 that that SCONJ IN _ 35 mark _ _ 31 you you PRON PRP Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs 35 nsubj _ _ 32 will will AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 35 aux _ _ 33 never never ADV RB PronType=Neg 34 advmod _ _ 34 again again ADV RB _ 35 advmod _ _ 35 fight fight VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 28 advcl _ _ 36 with with ADP IN _ 37 case _ _ 37 me I PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 35 obl _ _ 38 or or CCONJ CC _ 41 cc _ _ 39 any any DET DT PronType=Ind 41 det _ _ 40 other other ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 41 amod _ _ 41 man man NOUN NN Number=Sing 37 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 42 . . PUNCT . _ 2 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 43 " " PUNCT '' _ 2 punct _ _ 44 " " PUNCT '' _ 2 punct _ SpaceAfter=No ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **speak** *speech: other* | past | Roland | the first | | | | | tree rules | | 2 | **say** *speech: assert* | past | Roland *not said here* | | | | | | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | | 3 | **is** *in a quote* | infinitive | | | | | | Sir *ccomp*; sure *property* | tree rules | | 4 | **leave** *in a quote* | present | you | the field | | | day | | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent field=Theme | | 5 | **leave** *in a quote* | future | you | field | | | | | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme | | 6 | **fight** *in a quote* | future | you | | | | again; never | with Roland | vn battle-36.4-1 «NP V PP.co-agent»: agent=Agent with i=Co-Agent | 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. **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. - ← previous: [sentence 8](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg75339/10/8/) - next →: [sentence 10](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg75339/10/10/) - ↑ back to [How Mawgis Became a Hermit](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg75339/10/)