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# Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France, How Fierabras Defied King Charles, sentence 47

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Oliver answered, "Do my bidding, for this is an occasion of honour that no man should miss."

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**Who acts:** Oliver, this, man, my · **What happens:** answer, do, be, miss, bid · **To what, where:** bidding, honour · **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 (Oliver, this, man, my), 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:pg75339:16:47
# text = Oliver answered, "Do my bidding, for this is an occasion of honour that no man should miss."
1	Oliver	Oliver	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	nsubj	_	_
2	answered	answer	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	5	punct	_	_
4	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	5	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	Do	do	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	2	ccomp	_	_
6	my	my	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	7	nmod:poss	_	_
7	bidding	bidding	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
9	for	for	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
10	this	this	PRON	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	13	nsubj	_	_
11	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	13	cop	_	_
12	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
13	occasion	occasion	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obl	_	_
14	of	of	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
15	honour	honour	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	nmod	_	_
16	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	20	obj	_	_
17	no	no	DET	DT	PronType=Neg	18	det	_	_
18	man	man	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	nsubj	_	_
19	should	should	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	20	aux	_	_
20	miss	miss	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	15	acl:relcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **answer** *speech: assert* | past | Oliver |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **do** *in a quote* | infinitive |  | my bidding |  |  |  |  | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent bidding=Eventuality |
| 3 | **is** *in a quote* | present | this |  |  |  |  | for a occasion; of honour | tree rules |
| 4 | **miss** *in a quote* | should | no man | honour |  |  |  |  | vn admire-31.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer that=Stimulus |
| 5 | **bid** *in a quote* |  | my |  |  |  |  |  | nom bidding «communication transitive»: poss=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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