--- title: But Brullant stood up and said, "Sir Admiral, I beseech you to hear… — Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of F… · tree and pragmatics description: But Brullant stood up and said, "Sir Admiral, I beseech you to hear me; it is now eventide, and too late to do justice in proper form; your lords and councillors also are not here; delay therefore this matter to the morrow, when the thing shall be known and your judgment better approved, for that th --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg75339/19/27/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [tales](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/) / [Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve…](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg75339/) / [How Oliver and His Comrades Fared](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg75339/19/) / 27 # Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France, How Oliver and His Comrades Fared, sentence 27 But Brullant stood up and said, "Sir Admiral, I beseech you to hear me; it is now eventide, and too late to do justice in proper form; your lords and councillors also are not here; delay therefore this matter to the morrow, when the thing shall be known and your judgment better approved, for that these men rightly deserve such punishment I do heartily believe. **Who acts:** Brullant, iron, judgment, men, your · **What happens:** stand up, say, beseech, hear, be, do · **To what, where:** lords, you, Brullant, eventide, justice, proper form · **Speech:** someone speaks here This is a sentence of «Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France» by Alfred John Church, How Oliver and His Comrades Fared. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Brullant, iron, judgment, men), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. **Mova's own parse.** This tree may be wrong. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = book:pg75339:19:27 # text = But Brullant stood up and said, "Sir Admiral, I beseech you to hear me; it is now eventide, and too late to do justice in proper form; your lords and councillors also are not here; delay therefore this matter to the morrow, when the thing shall be known and your judgment better approved, for that these men rightly deserve such punishment I do heartily believe. 1 But but CCONJ CC _ 3 cc _ _ 2 Brullant Brullant PROPN NNP Number=Sing 3 nsubj _ _ 3 stood stand VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 4 up up ADP RP _ 3 compound:prt _ _ 5 and and CCONJ CC _ 6 cc _ _ 6 said say VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 3 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 7 , , PUNCT , _ 10 punct _ _ 8 " " PUNCT `` _ 10 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 9 Sir Sir PROPN NNP Number=Sing 10 compound _ _ 10 Admiral admiral NOUN NN Number=Sing 6 ccomp _ SpaceAfter=No 11 , , PUNCT , _ 13 punct _ _ 12 I I PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 13 nsubj _ _ 13 beseech beseech VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 3 parataxis _ _ 14 you you PRON PRP Case=Acc|Person=2|PronType=Prs 13 obj _ _ 15 to to PART TO _ 16 mark _ _ 16 hear hear VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 13 advcl _ _ 17 me I PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 16 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 18 ; ; PUNCT , _ 22 punct _ _ 19 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 22 nsubj _ _ 20 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 22 cop _ _ 21 now now ADV RB PronType=Dem 22 advmod _ _ 22 eventide eventide NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 parataxis _ SpaceAfter=No 23 , , PUNCT , _ 26 punct _ _ 24 and and CCONJ CC _ 26 cc _ _ 25 too too ADV RB _ 26 advmod _ _ 26 late late ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 3 parataxis _ _ 27 to to PART TO _ 28 mark _ _ 28 do do VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 26 xcomp _ _ 29 justice justice NOUN NN Number=Sing 28 obj _ _ 30 in in ADP IN _ 32 case _ _ 31 proper proper ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 32 amod _ _ 32 form form NOUN NN Number=Sing 28 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 33 ; ; PUNCT : _ 35 punct _ _ 34 your your PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 35 nmod:poss _ _ 35 lords lord NOUN NNS Number=Plur 3 obl _ _ 36 and and CCONJ CC _ 37 cc _ _ 37 councillors councillor NOUN NNS Number=Plur 35 conj _ _ 38 also also ADV RB _ 41 advmod _ _ 39 are be AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 41 cop _ _ 40 not not PART RB Polarity=Neg 41 advmod _ _ 41 here here ADV RB PronType=Dem 35 advmod _ SpaceAfter=No 42 ; ; PUNCT : _ 43 punct _ _ 43 delay delay VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 3 conj _ _ 44 therefore therefore ADV RB _ 43 advmod _ _ 45 this this DET DT Number=Sing|PronType=Dem 46 det _ _ 46 matter matter NOUN NN Number=Sing 43 obj _ _ 47 to to ADP IN _ 49 case _ _ 48 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 49 det _ _ 49 morrow morrow NOUN NN Number=Sing 43 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 50 , , PUNCT , _ 56 punct _ _ 51 when when ADV WRB PronType=Int 56 advmod _ _ 52 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 53 det _ _ 53 thing thing NOUN NN Number=Sing 56 nsubj:pass _ _ 54 shall shall AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 56 aux _ _ 55 be be AUX VB VerbForm=Inf 56 aux:pass _ _ 56 known know VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 43 parataxis _ _ 57 and and CCONJ CC _ 61 cc _ _ 58 your your PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 59 nmod:poss _ _ 59 judgment judgment NOUN NN Number=Sing 61 nsubj _ _ 60 better well ADV RBR Degree=Cmp 61 advmod _ _ 61 approved approve VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 56 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 62 , , PUNCT , _ 68 punct _ _ 63 for for SCONJ IN _ 68 mark _ _ 64 that that SCONJ IN _ 68 mark _ _ 65 these this DET DT Number=Plur|PronType=Dem 66 det _ _ 66 men man NOUN NNS Number=Plur 68 nsubj _ _ 67 rightly rightly ADV RB _ 68 advmod _ _ 68 deserve deserve VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 61 conj _ _ 69 such such ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 70 amod _ _ 70 punishment punishment NOUN NN Number=Sing 68 obj _ _ 71 I I PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 74 nsubj _ _ 72 do do AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 74 aux _ _ 73 heartily heartily ADV RB _ 74 advmod _ _ 74 believe believe VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 70 acl:relcl _ SpaceAfter=No 75 . . PUNCT . _ 3 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **stand up** | past | Brullant | your lords and councillors | | | | | tree rules | | 2 | **say** *speech: assert* | past | Brullant *not said here* | | | | | Sir Admiral *ccomp* | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | | 3 | **beseech** *in a quote* | present | Brullant | you | | | | | tree rules | | 4 | **hear** *in a quote* | to-infinitive | Brullant *not said here* | Brullant | | | | | vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer i=Stimulus | | 5 | **is a** *in a quote* | present | iron | eventide | | | now | | tree rules | | 6 | **do** *in a quote* | to-infinitive | Brullant *not said here* | justice | | proper form | | | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent justice=Eventuality | | 7 | **not** **is** *in a quote* | present | | | | | | here *property* | tree rules | | 8 | **delay** *in a quote* | infinitive | Brullant *not said here* | this matter | | | | to the morrow; therefore *property* | vn delay-53.3-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent matter=Source | | 9 | **know** *in a quote* | shall · passive | | the thing | | | | | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: subject=Stimulus | | 10 | **approve** *in a quote* | past | your judgment | | | | | well *property* | vn marvel-31.3 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer | | 11 | **deserve** *in a quote* | present | this men | such punishment | | | | rightly *property* | tree rules | | 12 | **believe** *in a quote* | present · do-support | Brullant | such punishment *not said here* | | | | heartily *property* | vn admire-31.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer punishment=Stimulus | | 13 | **judge** *in a quote* | | your | | | | | | nom judgment «cognition transitive»: poss=agent | 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. **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. - ← previous: [sentence 26](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg75339/19/26/) - next →: [sentence 28](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg75339/19/28/) - ↑ back to [How Oliver and His Comrades Fared](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg75339/19/)