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title: After a while, the master-mason said to him, "See you those poor men… — Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of F… · tree and pragmatics
description: After a while, the master-mason said to him, "See you those poor men that seek to carry a stone yonder? Who acts: master mason, poor men. 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 ever
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# Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France, Of Reynaud's End, sentence 33

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After a while, the master-mason said to him, "See you those poor men that seek to carry a stone yonder?

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**Who acts:** master mason, poor men · **What happens:** say, see, seek, carry · **To what, where:** Reynaud, stone · **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, poor men), 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:pg75339:13:33
# text = After a while, the master-mason said to him, "See you those poor men that seek to carry a stone yonder?
1	After	after	ADP	IN	_	3	case	_	_
2	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	while	while	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	3	punct	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
6	master	master	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	6	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	mason	mason	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	nsubj	_	_
9	said	say	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
10	to	to	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
11	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	9	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
13	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	14	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	See	see	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	9	conj	_	_
15	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Person=2|PronType=Prs	14	obj	_	_
16	those	that	DET	DT	Number=Plur|PronType=Dem	18	det	_	_
17	poor	poor	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	18	amod	_	_
18	men	man	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	14	obj	_	_
19	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	20	nsubj	_	_
20	seek	seek	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	18	acl:relcl	_	_
21	to	to	PART	TO	_	22	mark	_	_
22	carry	carry	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	20	xcomp	_	_
23	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	24	det	_	_
24	stone	stone	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	obj	_	_
25	yonder	yonder	ADV	RB	_	22	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	9	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **say** *speech: ask* | past | the master mason |  | Reynaud |  | while |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V PP.recipient S-Quote»: agent=Agent to he=Recipient |
| 2 | **see** *in a quote* | infinitive | the master mason *not said here* | Reynaud |  |  |  | that poor men *obj* | tree rules |
| 3 | **seek** *in a quote* | present | that poor men |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 4 | **carry** *not said to happen, in a quote* | to-infinitive | that poor men *not said here* | a stone |  |  |  | yonder *property* | vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent stone=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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