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title: The master-mason said, "Sir, you are more like to a king than a labo… — Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of F… · tree and pragmatics
description: The master-mason said, "Sir, you are more like to a king than a labourer, and it shames me to set you to such work." Who acts: master mason, you, mason. 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 pra
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# Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France, Of Reynaud's End, sentence 30

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The master-mason said, "Sir, you are more like to a king than a labourer, and it shames me to set you to such work."

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**Who acts:** master mason, you, mason · **What happens:** say, be, shame, set · **To what, where:** master mason, you · **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 (master mason, you, mason), 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:pg75339:13:30
# text = The master-mason said, "Sir, you are more like to a king than a labourer, and it shames me to set you to such work."
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
2	master	master	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	2	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	mason	mason	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	_
5	said	say	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	8	punct	_	_
7	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	8	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	Sir	Sir	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
10	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	16	nsubj	_	_
11	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	16	cop	_	_
12	more	more	ADV	RBR	Degree=Cmp	16	advmod	_	_
13	like	like	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
14	to	to	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
15	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
16	king	king	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	appos	_	_
17	than	than	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
18	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	19	det	_	_
19	labourer	labourer	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	23	punct	_	_
21	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	23	cc	_	_
22	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	23	nsubj	_	_
23	shames	shame	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	5	ccomp	_	_
24	me	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	23	obj	_	_
25	to	to	PART	TO	_	26	mark	_	_
26	set	set	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	23	advcl	_	_
27	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Person=2|PronType=Prs	26	obj	_	_
28	to	to	ADP	IN	_	30	case	_	_
29	such	such	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	30	amod	_	_
30	work	work	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	26	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
31	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	23	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
32	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	23	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 | the master mason |  |  |  |  | Sir *nsubj* | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 2 | **is** *in a quote* | present | you |  |  |  |  | like a king; than a labourer | tree rules |
| 3 | **shame** *in a quote* | present | mason | the master mason *= mason* |  |  |  |  | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus i=Experiencer |
| 4 | **set** *in a quote* | to-infinitive | mason *not said here* | you |  |  |  | to such work | vn other\_cos-45.4-1 «NP V NP ADJ»: agent=Patient you=Result |

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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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