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title: Nay," answered Ralph, "I am on my way, according to promise made to… — Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of F… · tree and pragmatics
description: Nay," answered Ralph, "I am on my way, according to promise made to one Wymond, and to him I will go and to none other." " Who acts: I, way. 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 pragmati
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# Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France, How Ralph Went to Court, sentence 20

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Nay," answered Ralph, "I am on my way, according to promise made to one Wymond, and to him I will go and to none other." "

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**Who acts:** I, way · **What happens:** answer, be, accord, promise, make, go · **To what, where:** Ralph, way, one, Wymond · **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 (I, way), 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:pg75339:15:20
# text = Nay," answered Ralph, "I am on my way, according to promise made to one Wymond, and to him I will go and to none other." "
1	Nay	nay	INTJ	UH	_	4	discourse	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	1	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	4	punct	_	_
4	answered	answer	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	Ralph	Ralph	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
7	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	12	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	12	nsubj	_	_
9	am	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	12	cop	_	_
10	on	on	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
11	my	my	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	12	nmod:poss	_	_
12	way	way	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	parataxis	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
14	according	accord	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	12	acl	_	_
15	to	to	PART	TO	_	16	mark	_	_
16	promise	promise	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	14	xcomp	_	_
17	made	make	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	16	xcomp	_	_
18	to	to	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
19	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	17	obl	_	_
20	Wymond	Wymond	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	19	nmod:unmarked	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	27	punct	_	_
22	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	27	cc	_	_
23	to	to	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	_
24	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	27	obl	_	_
25	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	27	nsubj	_	_
26	will	will	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	27	aux	_	_
27	go	go	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	4	ccomp	_	_
28	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	31	cc	_	_
29	to	to	ADP	IN	_	30	case	_	_
30	none	none	PRON	NN	PronType=Neg	31	obl	_	_
31	other	other	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	27	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
32	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	27	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
33	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	27	punct	_	_
34	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	4	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **answer** *speech: assert* *in a quote* | past |  |  | Ralph |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **is** | present | I |  |  | my way |  | my *nmod:poss* | tree rules |
| 3 | **accord** | gerund | my way *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 4 | **promise** *speech: promise* | to-infinitive | my way *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn promise-37.13 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 5 | **make** *not said to happen* | participle | my way *not said here* |  | one  Wymond |  |  |  | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset |
| 6 | **go** | future | I |  | Wymond |  |  |  | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme to he=Initial\_Location |

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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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