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title: He said, "We have done ill to leave King John. — Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of F… · tree and pragmatics
description: He said, "We have done ill to leave King John. Who acts: Reynaud, We. 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 the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France, Of What Befell At Montalban, sentence 119

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He said, "We have done ill to leave King John.

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**Who acts:** Reynaud, We · **What happens:** say, do, leave · **To what, where:** John · **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 (Reynaud, We), 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:pg75339:11:119
# text = He said, "We have done ill to leave King John.
1	He	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	nsubj	_	_
2	said	say	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	2	punct	_	_
4	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	7	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	We	we	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs	7	nsubj	_	_
6	have	have	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	7	aux	_	_
7	done	do	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	2	conj	_	_
8	ill	ill	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	xcomp	_	_
9	to	to	PART	TO	_	10	mark	_	_
10	leave	leave	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	7	advcl	_	_
11	King	King	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	12	nmod:desc	_	_
12	John	John	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	10	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **say** *speech: assert* | past | Reynaud |  |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **do** *in a quote* | present · perfect | We |  |  |  |  | ill *property* | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **leave** *in a quote* | to-infinitive | We *not said here* | John  King |  |  |  |  | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent john=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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