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title: So the porter went back to the gate and opened it, saying to the Cha… — Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of F… · tree and pragmatics
description: So the porter went back to the gate and opened it, saying to the Charcoal-burner, "Enter, man; but I have no leisure to seek for this Wymond for whom you ask. Who acts: porter, Charcoal burner. A sentence of «Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France» by Alfred John Church, How Ralph Wen
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# Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France, How Ralph Went to Court, sentence 48

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So the porter went back to the gate and opened it, saying to the Charcoal-burner, "Enter, man; but I have no leisure to seek for this Wymond for whom you ask.

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**Who acts:** porter, Charcoal burner · **What happens:** go back, open, say, have, seek, ask · **To what, where:** gate, Charcoal burner, leisure · **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 (porter, Charcoal burner), 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:pg75339:15:48
# text = So the porter went back to the gate and opened it, saying to the Charcoal-burner, "Enter, man; but I have no leisure to seek for this Wymond for whom you ask.
1	So	so	ADV	RB	_	4	advmod	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	porter	porter	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
4	went	go	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	back	back	ADV	RB	_	4	advmod	_	_
6	to	to	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	gate	gate	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	_
9	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	10	cc	_	_
10	opened	open	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	conj	_	_
11	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	10	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
13	saying	say	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	10	advcl	_	_
14	to	to	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
15	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
16	Charcoal	charcoal	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	16	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	burner	burner	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	21	punct	_	_
20	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	21	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	Enter	Enter	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	18	appos	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	23	punct	_	_
23	man	man	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	27	punct	_	_
25	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	27	cc	_	_
26	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	27	nsubj	_	_
27	have	have	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	conj	_	_
28	no	no	DET	DT	PronType=Neg	29	det	_	_
29	leisure	leisure	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	27	obj	_	_
30	to	to	PART	TO	_	31	mark	_	_
31	seek	seek	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	29	acl	_	_
32	for	for	ADP	IN	_	34	case	_	_
33	this	this	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	34	det	_	_
34	Wymond	Wymond	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	31	obl	_	_
35	for	for	ADP	IN	_	36	case	_	_
36	whom	whom	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	31	obl	_	_
37	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	38	nsubj	_	_
38	ask	ask	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	36	acl:relcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
39	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **go back** | past | the porter |  |  |  |  | to the gate *result* | vn convert-26.6.2 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Patient to gate=Result |
| 2 | **open** | past | the porter *not said here* | gate |  |  |  |  | vn spatial\_configuration-47.6-1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location it=Theme |
| 3 | **say** *speech: assert* | gerund | the porter *not said here* |  | the Charcoal burner and man |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V PP.recipient S-Quote»: agent=Agent to burner=Recipient |
| 4 | **have** *in a quote* | present | the porter *= porter* | no leisure |  |  |  |  | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent leisure=Patient |
| 5 | **seek** *in a quote* | to-infinitive | the porter *= porter* *not said here* | no leisure *not said here* |  |  |  | for this Wymond; for no leisure | vn hunt-35.1 «NP V PP.theme PP.location»: agent=Agent for wymond=Theme |
| 6 | **ask** *speech: ask* *in a quote* | present | the Charcoal burner and man *= burner* |  |  |  |  |  | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent |

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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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