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title: "Sir King," said Ganelon, "may God and Our Lady keep me!" but to him… — Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of F… · tree and pragmatics
description: "Sir King," said Ganelon, "may God and Our Lady keep me!" but to himself he said secretly, "Now God forbid that Oliver should come back safe. Who acts: Sir King, God, Ganelon, Oliver. A sentence of «Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France» by Alfred John Church, How Fierabras Defied Ki
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# Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France, How Fierabras Defied King Charles, sentence 68

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"Sir King," said Ganelon, "may God and Our Lady keep me!" but to himself he said secretly, "Now God forbid that Oliver should come back safe.

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**Who acts:** Sir King, God, Ganelon, Oliver · **What happens:** say, keep, forbid, come back · **To what, where:** Sir King, Ganelon · **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 (Sir King, God, Ganelon, Oliver), 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:pg75339:16:68
# text = "Sir King," said Ganelon, "may God and Our Lady keep me!" but to himself he said secretly, "Now God forbid that Oliver should come back safe.
1	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	3	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	Sir	Sir	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	compound	_	_
3	King	King	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	6	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	3	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	3	punct	_	_
6	said	say	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
7	Ganelon	Ganelon	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	15	vocative	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
9	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	15	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	may	may	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	15	aux	_	_
11	God	God	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	15	nsubj	_	_
12	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	14	cc	_	_
13	Our	our	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	14	nmod:poss	_	_
14	Lady	Lady	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	11	conj	_	_
15	keep	keep	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	6	ccomp	_	_
16	me	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	15	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	!	!	PUNCT	.	_	15	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	15	punct	_	_
19	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	23	cc	_	_
20	to	to	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
21	himself	himself	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs|Reflex=Yes	23	obl	_	_
22	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	23	nsubj	_	_
23	said	say	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	6	conj	_	_
24	secretly	secretly	ADV	RB	_	23	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	29	punct	_	_
26	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	29	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	Now	now	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	29	advmod	_	_
28	God	God	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	29	nsubj	_	_
29	forbid	forbid	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	23	conj	_	_
30	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	33	mark	_	_
31	Oliver	Oliver	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	33	nsubj	_	_
32	should	should	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	33	aux	_	_
33	come	come	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	29	advcl	_	_
34	back	back	ADV	RB	_	33	advmod	_	_
35	safe	safe	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	33	xcomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
36	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **say** *speech: express* | past | Sir King |  |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 2 | **keep** *in a quote* | may | God and Our Lady | Sir King *= king* |  |  |  | Ganelon *vocative* | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent i=Theme |
| 3 | **say** *speech: assert* | past | Ganelon |  | Ganelon |  |  | secretly *property* | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V PP.recipient S-Quote»: agent=Agent to himself=Recipient |
| 4 | **forbid** *in a quote* | infinitive | God |  |  |  | now |  | vn forbid-64.4-1 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Causer |
| 5 | **come back** *in a quote* | should | Oliver |  |  |  |  | safe *property* | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |

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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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