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title: But the Duke Naymes stood forth and said, "Sire, I would counsel you… — Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of F… · tree and pragmatics
description: But the Duke Naymes stood forth and said, "Sire, I would counsel you to send the Duke to his house. Who acts: Duke Naymes. 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 cl
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# Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France, Of What Befell At Montalban, sentence 91

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But the Duke Naymes stood forth and said, "Sire, I would counsel you to send the Duke to his house.

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**Who acts:** Duke Naymes · **What happens:** stand, say, counsel, send · **To what, where:** you, Duke, house · **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 (Duke Naymes), 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:pg75339:11:91
# text = But the Duke Naymes stood forth and said, "Sire, I would counsel you to send the Duke to his house.
1	But	but	CCONJ	CC	_	5	cc	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
3	Duke	Duke	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	compound	_	_
4	Naymes	Naymes	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	_
5	stood	stand	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
6	forth	forth	ADV	RB	_	5	advmod	_	_
7	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	8	cc	_	_
8	said	say	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
10	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	11	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	Sire	sire	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	vocative	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
13	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	15	nsubj	_	_
14	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	15	aux	_	_
15	counsel	counsel	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	5	advcl	_	_
16	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Person=2|PronType=Prs	15	obj	_	_
17	to	to	PART	TO	_	18	mark	_	_
18	send	send	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	15	xcomp	_	_
19	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	20	det	_	_
20	Duke	Duke	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	18	obj	_	_
21	to	to	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
22	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	23	nmod:poss	_	_
23	house	house	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **stand** | past | the Duke Naymes |  |  |  |  | forth *property* | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **say** *speech: assert* | past | the Duke Naymes *not said here* |  |  |  |  | Sire *vocative* | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **counsel** *speech: other* *in a quote* | would | the Duke Naymes *= naymes* | you |  |  |  |  | vn advise-37.9-1 «NP V NP how S\_INF»: agent=Agent you=Recipient clause=Topic |
| 4 | **send** *in a quote* | to-infinitive | the Duke Naymes *= naymes* *not said here* | the Duke |  | Duke's house |  |  | vn confine-92-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent duke=Theme to house=Destination |

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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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