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title: Said Garin the squire, "Now, my lord Oliver, have pity on yourself. — Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of F… · tree and pragmatics
description: Said Garin the squire, "Now, my lord Oliver, have pity on yourself. Who acts: Garin, lord. A sentence of «Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France» by Alfred John Church, How Fierabras Defied King Charles, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France, How Fierabras Defied King Charles, sentence 45

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Said Garin the squire, "Now, my lord Oliver, have pity on yourself.

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**Who acts:** Garin, lord · **What happens:** say, have · **To what, where:** pity · **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 Fierabras Defied King Charles. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Garin, lord), 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:pg75339:16:45
# text = Said Garin the squire, "Now, my lord Oliver, have pity on yourself.
1	Said	say	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
2	Garin	Garin	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	1	nsubj	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	squire	squire	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	1	punct	_	_
6	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	13	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	Now	now	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	13	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	7	punct	_	_
9	my	my	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	10	nmod:poss	_	_
10	lord	lord	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	nsubj	_	_
11	Oliver	Oliver	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	10	appos	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
13	have	have	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	1	conj	_	_
14	pity	pity	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	obj	_	_
15	on	on	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
16	yourself	yourself	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Reflex=Yes	13	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	1	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 | Garin |  |  |  |  | the squire *nsubj* | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **have** *in a quote* | present | my lord | pity |  |  | now | on yourself | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent pity=Patient |

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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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