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title: But the Duke Naymes answered, "Not so, my lord; this way has been ma… — Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of F… · tree and pragmatics
description: But the Duke Naymes answered, "Not so, my lord; this way has been made many years." Who acts: Duke Naymes. A sentence of «Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France» by Alfred John Church, How Peace Was Made, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France, How Peace Was Made, sentence 11

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But the Duke Naymes answered, "Not so, my lord; this way has been made many years."

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**Who acts:** Duke Naymes · **What happens:** answer, make · **To what, where:** way · **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, How Peace Was Made. 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:pg75339:12:11
# text = But the Duke Naymes answered, "Not so, my lord; this way has been made many years."
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	answered	answer	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
7	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	9	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	Not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	9	advmod	_	_
9	so	so	ADV	RB	_	12	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
11	my	my	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	12	nmod:poss	_	_
12	lord	lord	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	18	punct	_	_
14	this	this	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	15	det	_	_
15	way	way	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	nsubj:pass	_	_
16	has	have	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	18	aux	_	_
17	been	be	AUX	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	18	aux:pass	_	_
18	made	make	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	5	ccomp	_	_
19	many	many	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	20	amod	_	_
20	years	year	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	18	obl:unmarked	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **answer** *speech: assert* | past | the Duke Naymes |  |  |  |  | my lord *conj* | tree rules |
| 2 | **make** *in a quote* | present · perfect · passive |  | this way |  |  | year |  | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: subject=Product |

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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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