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title: But Duke Naymes said to Sir Roland, "This is foolish talk; it is not… — Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of F… · tree and pragmatics
description: But Duke Naymes said to Sir Roland, "This is foolish talk; it is not wise to give one blow and to receive a score. Who acts: Duke, This. A sentence of «Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France» by Alfred John Church, Of the Bridge of Mantryble, with its dependency tree and the pragmatic
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# Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France, Of the Bridge of Mantryble, sentence 73

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But Duke Naymes said to Sir Roland, "This is foolish talk; it is not wise to give one blow and to receive a score.

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**Who acts:** Duke, This · **What happens:** say, be, not be, give, receive · **To what, where:** Sir, foolish talk, one blow, score · **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, Of the Bridge of Mantryble. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Duke, This), 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:pg75339:20:73
# text = But Duke Naymes said to Sir Roland, "This is foolish talk; it is not wise to give one blow and to receive a score.
1	But	but	CCONJ	CC	_	4	cc	_	_
2	Duke	Duke	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
3	Naymes	Naymes	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	flat	_	_
4	said	say	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	to	to	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
6	Sir	Sir	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	_
7	Roland	Roland	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	6	flat	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
9	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	13	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	This	this	PRON	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	13	nsubj	_	_
11	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	13	cop	_	_
12	foolish	foolish	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	13	amod	_	_
13	talk	talk	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	appos	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	_
15	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	18	expl	_	_
16	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	18	cop	_	_
17	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	18	advmod	_	_
18	wise	wise	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	ccomp	_	_
19	to	to	PART	TO	_	20	mark	_	_
20	give	give	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	18	csubj	_	_
21	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	22	nummod	_	_
22	blow	blow	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	obj	_	_
23	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	25	cc	_	_
24	to	to	PART	TO	_	25	mark	_	_
25	receive	receive	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	20	conj	_	_
26	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	27	det	_	_
27	score	score	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **say** *speech: assert* | past | Duke |  | Sir |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V PP.recipient S-Quote»: agent=Agent to sir=Recipient |
| 2 | **is a** *in a quote* | present | This | foolish talk |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **not** **is** *in a quote* | present |  |  |  |  |  | wise *property* | tree rules |
| 4 | **give** *in a quote* | to-infinitive |  | one blow |  |  |  |  | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent blow=Theme |
| 5 | **receive** *in a quote* | to-infinitive |  | a score |  |  |  |  | vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent score=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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