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title: Sir," said he, "you have done as well as could have been done by any… — Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of F… · tree and pragmatics
description: Sir," said he, "you have done as well as could have been done by any man in keeping this castle, but now you can do no more. Who acts: Sir, you, man. A sentence of «Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France» by Alfred John Church, Of What Befell At Montalban, with its dependency tree and
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# Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France, Of What Befell At Montalban, sentence 111

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Sir," said he, "you have done as well as could have been done by any man in keeping this castle, but now you can do no more.

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**Who acts:** Sir, you, man · **What happens:** say, do, keep · **To what, where:** castle, more · **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 (Sir, you, man), 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:pg75339:11:111
# text = Sir," said he, "you have done as well as could have been done by any man in keeping this castle, but now you can do no more.
1	Sir	sir	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	1	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	1	punct	_	_
4	said	say	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	4	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
7	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	10	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	10	nsubj	_	_
9	have	have	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	10	aux	_	_
10	done	do	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	4	ccomp	_	_
11	as	as	ADV	RB	ExtPos=CCONJ	17	cc	_	_
12	well	well	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	11	fixed	_	_
13	as	as	ADP	IN	_	11	fixed	_	_
14	could	could	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	17	aux	_	_
15	have	have	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	17	aux	_	_
16	been	be	AUX	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	17	aux:pass	_	_
17	done	do	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	10	conj	_	_
18	by	by	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
19	any	any	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	20	det	_	_
20	man	man	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	obl	_	_
21	in	in	SCONJ	IN	_	22	mark	_	_
22	keeping	keep	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	17	advcl	_	_
23	this	this	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	24	det	_	_
24	castle	castle	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	30	punct	_	_
26	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	30	cc	_	_
27	now	now	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	30	advmod	_	_
28	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	30	nsubj	_	_
29	can	can	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	30	aux	_	_
30	do	do	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	4	conj	_	_
31	no	no	DET	DT	PronType=Neg	32	det	_	_
32	more	more	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	30	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
33	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **say** *speech: assert* *in a quote* | past | Sir |  |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 2 | **do** | present · perfect | you |  |  |  |  |  | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **do** | could · perfect · passive | any man |  |  |  |  |  | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 4 | **keep** | gerund | any man *not said here* | this castle |  |  |  |  | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent castle=Theme |
| 5 | **do** | can | you | no more |  |  | now |  | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent more=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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