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title: But Brutamont answered, "Not so, madam; the place is foul and loaths… — Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of F… · tree and pragmatics
description: But Brutamont answered, "Not so, madam; the place is foul and loathsome, and so dark that you could not see the men. Who acts: Brutamont, place, you. A sentence of «Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France» by Alfred John Church, How Oliver and His Comrades Fared, with its dependency tr
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# Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France, How Oliver and His Comrades Fared, sentence 59

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But Brutamont answered, "Not so, madam; the place is foul and loathsome, and so dark that you could not see the men.

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**Who acts:** Brutamont, place, you · **What happens:** answer, be, not see · **To what, where:** men · **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 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 (Brutamont, place, 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:pg75339:19:59
# text = But Brutamont answered, "Not so, madam; the place is foul and loathsome, and so dark that you could not see the men.
1	But	but	CCONJ	CC	_	3	cc	_	_
2	Brutamont	Brutamont	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
3	answered	answer	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	9	punct	_	_
5	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	7	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	Not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	7	advmod	_	_
7	so	so	ADV	RB	_	9	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	9	punct	_	_
9	madam	madam	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	14	punct	_	_
11	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
12	place	place	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	nsubj	_	_
13	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	14	cop	_	_
14	foul	foul	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	conj	_	_
15	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	16	cc	_	_
16	loathsome	loathsome	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	14	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	20	punct	_	_
18	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	20	cc	_	_
19	so	so	ADV	RB	_	20	advmod	_	_
20	dark	dark	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	14	conj	_	_
21	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	25	mark	_	_
22	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	25	nsubj	_	_
23	could	could	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	25	aux	_	_
24	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	25	advmod	_	_
25	see	see	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	20	advcl	_	_
26	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	27	det	_	_
27	men	man	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	25	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	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 | Brutamont |  |  |  |  | madam *conj* | vn reciprocate-112-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **is** *in a quote* | present | the place |  |  |  |  | foul *property* | tree rules |
| 3 | **be** *in a quote* |  | the place *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 4 | **be** *in a quote* |  | the place *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 5 | **not** **see** *in a quote* | could | you | the men |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer man=Stimulus |

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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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