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title: Then spake Gerard, "Lady, he that is so kept in prison will oft use… — Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of F… · tree and pragmatics
description: Then spake Gerard, "Lady, he that is so kept in prison will oft use light words that he may forget his pain." Who acts: you, Gerard. 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 tree and the pragma
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# Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France, How Oliver and His Comrades Fared, sentence 76

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Then spake Gerard, "Lady, he that is so kept in prison will oft use light words that he may forget his pain."

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**Who acts:** you, Gerard · **What happens:** speak, keep, forget, pain · **To what, where:** Gerard, prison, pain · **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 (you, Gerard), 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:pg75339:19:76
# text = Then spake Gerard, "Lady, he that is so kept in prison will oft use light words that he may forget his pain."
1	Then	then	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	2	advmod	_	_
2	spake	speak	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	Gerard	Gerard	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	6	punct	_	_
5	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	6	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	Lady	Lady	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
8	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	12	nsubj:pass	_	_
9	that	that	PRON	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	12	nsubj:pass	_	_
10	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	12	aux:pass	_	_
11	so	so	ADV	RB	_	12	advmod	_	_
12	kept	keep	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	2	advcl	_	_
13	in	in	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
14	prison	prison	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	obl	_	_
15	will	will	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	19	aux	_	_
16	oft	oft	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	19	amod	_	_
17	use	use	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	compound	_	_
18	light	light	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	compound	_	_
19	words	word	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	12	obl	_	_
20	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	23	mark	_	_
21	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	23	nsubj	_	_
22	may	may	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	23	aux	_	_
23	forget	forget	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	19	advcl	_	_
24	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	25	nmod:poss	_	_
25	pain	pain	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **speak** *speech: other* | imperative | you *not said here* | Gerard and Lady |  |  | then |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **keep** *in a quote* | present · passive |  | Gerard |  | prison |  | oft use light words *obl*; that *nsubj:pass* | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP PP.location»: subject=Theme in prison=Location |
| 3 | **forget** *in a quote* | may | Gerard | Gerard's pain |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 4 | **pain** *in a quote* |  | Gerard |  |  |  |  |  | nom pain «state transitive»: poss=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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