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description: This is not of my counsel," said Gillian his wife; "this journey will not be to your profit. Who acts: This, Gillian, journey. A sentence of «Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France» by Alfred John Church, How Ralph Went to Court, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every cl
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# Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France, How Ralph Went to Court, sentence 2

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This is not of my counsel," said Gillian his wife; "this journey will not be to your profit.

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**Who acts:** This, Gillian, journey · **What happens:** not be, say · **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 Ralph Went to Court. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (This, Gillian, journey), 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:pg75339:15:2
# text = This is not of my counsel," said Gillian his wife; "this journey will not be to your profit.
1	This	this	PRON	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	6	nsubj	_	_
2	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	6	cop	_	_
3	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	6	advmod	_	_
4	of	of	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
5	my	my	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	6	nmod:poss	_	_
6	counsel	counsel	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	ccomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	6	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	6	punct	_	_
9	said	say	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
10	Gillian	Gillian	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	9	nsubj	_	_
11	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	12	nmod:poss	_	_
12	wife	wife	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	22	punct	_	_
14	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	22	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	this	this	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	16	det	_	_
16	journey	journey	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	nsubj	_	_
17	will	will	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	22	aux	_	_
18	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	22	advmod	_	_
19	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	22	cop	_	_
20	to	to	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
21	your	your	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	22	nmod:poss	_	_
22	profit	profit	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	9	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **not** **be** *speech: other* | present | This |  |  |  |  | of my counsel; my *nmod:poss* | tree rules |
| 2 | **say** *speech: assert* *in a quote* | past | Gillian |  |  |  |  | Gillian's wife *nsubj* | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **not** **is** | future | this journey |  |  |  |  | to your profit; your *nmod:poss* | tree rules |

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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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