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title: He said to the master-mason, "Let me now serve the masons with such… — Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of F… · tree and pragmatics
description: He said to the master-mason, "Let me now serve the masons with such things as they need." Who acts: Reynaud, sons. A sentence of «Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France» by Alfred John Church, Of Reynaud's End, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France, Of Reynaud's End, sentence 29

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He said to the master-mason, "Let me now serve the masons with such things as they need."

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**Who acts:** Reynaud, sons · **What happens:** say, let, serve, need · **To what, where:** master mason, Reynaud, masons, such things · **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 Reynaud's End. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Reynaud, sons), 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:pg75339:13:29
# text = He said to the master-mason, "Let me now serve the masons with such things as they need."
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	_	_
3	to	to	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
5	master	master	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	5	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	mason	mason	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
9	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	10	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	Let	let	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	2	ccomp	_	_
11	me	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	10	obj	_	_
12	now	now	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	13	advmod	_	_
13	serve	serve	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	10	advcl	_	_
14	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
15	masons	mason	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	13	obj	_	_
16	with	with	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
17	such	such	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	18	amod	_	_
18	things	thing	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	15	nmod	_	_
19	as	as	SCONJ	IN	_	21	mark	_	_
20	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	21	nsubj	_	_
21	need	need	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	18	acl:relcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	10	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	10	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 |  | the master mason |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V PP.recipient S-Quote»: agent=Agent to mason=Recipient clause=Topic |
| 2 | **let** *in a quote* | infinitive |  | Reynaud |  |  |  |  | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent i=Theme |
| 3 | **serve** *in a quote* | present |  | the masons |  |  | now | with such things | vn fulfilling-13.4.1-1 «NP V NP-Fulfilling PP.theme»: agent=Agent mason=Recipient with thing=Theme |
| 4 | **need** *in a quote* | present | sons *= son* | such things *not said here* |  |  |  |  | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot thing=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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