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title: Oliver answered, "Now God forbid that I should listen to such folly. — Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of F… · tree and pragmatics
description: Oliver answered, "Now God forbid that I should listen to such folly. Who acts: Oliver, God. A sentence of «Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France» by Alfred John Church, How Oliver Fought With Fierabras, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France, How Oliver Fought With Fierabras, sentence 54

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Oliver answered, "Now God forbid that I should listen to such folly.

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**Who acts:** Oliver, God · **What happens:** answer, forbid, listen · **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 Oliver Fought With Fierabras. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Oliver, God), 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:pg75339:17:54
# text = Oliver answered, "Now God forbid that I should listen to such folly.
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	,	_	7	punct	_	_
4	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	7	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	Now	now	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	7	advmod	_	_
6	God	God	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	7	nsubj	_	_
7	forbid	forbid	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	2	ccomp	_	_
8	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	11	mark	_	_
9	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	11	nsubj	_	_
10	should	should	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	11	aux	_	_
11	listen	listen	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	7	advcl	_	_
12	to	to	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
13	such	such	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	14	amod	_	_
14	folly	folly	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	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 | **forbid** *in a quote* | infinitive | God |  |  |  | now |  | vn forbid-64.4-1 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Causer |
| 3 | **listen** *in a quote* | should | Oliver |  |  |  |  | to such folly | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent to folly=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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