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title: But Oliver said, "My lord King, I ask neither towns nor castles, but… — Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of F… · tree and pragmatics
description: But Oliver said, "My lord King, I ask neither towns nor castles, but only this--that you suffer me to do battle with this pagan." Who acts: Oliver, you. A sentence of «Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France» by Alfred John Church, How Fierabras Defied King Charles, with its dependency
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# Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France, How Fierabras Defied King Charles, sentence 58

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But Oliver said, "My lord King, I ask neither towns nor castles, but only this--that you suffer me to do battle with this pagan."

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**Who acts:** Oliver, you · **What happens:** say, ask, suffer, do, battle · **To what, where:** this, Oliver · **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, you), 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:pg75339:16:58
# text = But Oliver said, "My lord King, I ask neither towns nor castles, but only this--that you suffer me to do battle with this pagan."
1	But	but	CCONJ	CC	_	3	cc	_	_
2	Oliver	Oliver	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
3	said	say	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	3	punct	_	_
5	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	8	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	My	my	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	7	nmod:poss	_	_
7	lord	lord	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	nmod:desc	_	_
8	King	King	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	ccomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
10	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	11	nsubj	_	_
11	ask	ask	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	8	parataxis	_	_
12	neither	neither	CCONJ	CC	Polarity=Neg	13	cc:preconj	_	_
13	towns	town	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	19	nsubj	_	_
14	nor	nor	CCONJ	CC	Polarity=Neg	15	cc	_	_
15	castles	castle	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	13	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	19	punct	_	_
17	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	19	cc	_	_
18	only	only	ADV	RB	_	19	advmod	_	_
19	this	this	PRON	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	11	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	--	--	PUNCT	,	_	23	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	23	mark	_	_
22	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	23	nsubj	_	_
23	suffer	suffer	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	11	conj	_	_
24	me	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	23	obj	_	_
25	to	to	PART	TO	_	26	mark	_	_
26	do	do	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	23	xcomp	_	_
27	battle	battle	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	26	xcomp	_	_
28	with	with	ADP	IN	_	30	case	_	_
29	this	this	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	30	det	_	_
30	pagan	pagan	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	27	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
31	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	8	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
32	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	8	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 | Oliver |  |  |  |  | King  My lord *ccomp* | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **ask** *speech: ask* *in a quote* | present | Oliver | this  towns nor castles |  |  |  |  | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **suffer** *in a quote* | present | you | Oliver |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 4 | **do** *in a quote* | to-infinitive | you *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 5 | **battle** *in a quote* | infinitive | you *not said here* |  |  |  |  | with this pagan | vn battle-36.4-1 «NP V PP.co-agent»: agent=Agent with pagan=Co-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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