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# Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France, Of What Befell At Montalban, sentence 104

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But Yonnet, who was his younger son, said, "Father, do you chose that my mother and my brother should die, and Bayard live?"

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**Who acts:** Yonnet, Father, you, mother · **What happens:** be, say, do, choose, die, live · **To what, where:** younger son · **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, Of What Befell At Montalban. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Yonnet, Father, you, mother), 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:pg75339:11:104
# text = But Yonnet, who was his younger son, said, "Father, do you chose that my mother and my brother should die, and Bayard live?"
1	But	but	CCONJ	CC	_	10	cc	_	_
2	Yonnet	Yonnet	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	10	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	8	punct	_	_
4	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	8	nsubj	_	_
5	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	8	cop	_	_
6	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	8	nmod:poss	_	_
7	younger	young	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	8	amod	_	_
8	son	son	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	appos	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	2	punct	_	_
10	said	say	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
12	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	13	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	Father	Father	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	29	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
15	do	do	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	13	conj	_	_
16	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	17	nsubj	_	_
17	chose	choose	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	15	ccomp	_	_
18	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	25	mark	_	_
19	my	my	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	20	nmod:poss	_	_
20	mother	mother	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	nsubj	_	_
21	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	23	cc	_	_
22	my	my	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	23	nmod:poss	_	_
23	brother	brother	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	conj	_	_
24	should	should	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	25	aux	_	_
25	die	die	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	17	ccomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	29	punct	_	_
27	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	29	cc	_	_
28	Bayard	Bayard	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	29	nsubj	_	_
29	live	live	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	10	ccomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
30	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	10	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
31	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	10	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** | past | Yonnet | Yonnet's younger son |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **say** *speech: ask* | past | Yonnet |  |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 3 | **do** *in a quote* | present | Father *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 4 | **choose** *in a quote* | past | you |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 5 | **die** *in a quote* | should | my mother and my brother |  |  |  |  |  | vn calibratable\_cos-45.6.1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute |
| 6 | **live** *in a quote* | present | Father |  |  |  |  | Bayard *nsubj* | vn exist-47.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |

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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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