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title: When the Admiral saw him, he said, "You are like to Richard of Norma… — Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of F… · tree and pragmatics
description: When the Admiral saw him, he said, "You are like to Richard of Normandy, the same that slew my uncle Corsuble. Who acts: Admiral, Richard, You. A sentence of «Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France» by Alfred John Church, Of the Doings of Floripas, with its dependency tree and the pra
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# Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France, Of the Doings of Floripas, sentence 15

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When the Admiral saw him, he said, "You are like to Richard of Normandy, the same that slew my uncle Corsuble.

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**Who acts:** Admiral, Richard, You · **What happens:** see, say, be, slay · **To what, where:** Richard, uncle · **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 Doings of Floripas. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Admiral, Richard, 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:pg75339:21:15
# text = When the Admiral saw him, he said, "You are like to Richard of Normandy, the same that slew my uncle Corsuble.
1	When	when	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	4	advmod	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	Admiral	Admiral	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
4	saw	see	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	8	advcl	_	_
5	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	4	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	4	punct	_	_
7	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	8	nsubj	_	_
8	said	say	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	8	punct	_	_
10	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	15	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	You	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	15	nsubj	_	_
12	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	15	cop	_	_
13	like	like	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
14	to	to	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
15	Richard	Richard	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	8	ccomp	_	_
16	of	of	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
17	Normandy	Normandy	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	15	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	20	punct	_	_
19	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	20	det	_	_
20	same	same	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	15	appos	_	_
21	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	22	nsubj	_	_
22	slew	slay	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	20	acl:relcl	_	_
23	my	my	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	24	nmod:poss	_	_
24	uncle	uncle	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	obj	_	_
25	Corsuble	Corsuble	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	24	appos	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	8	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **see** | past | the Admiral | Richard |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer he=Stimulus |
| 2 | **say** *speech: assert* | past | Richard |  |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **is** *in a quote* | present | You |  |  |  |  | like Richard; of Normandy | tree rules |
| 4 | **slay** *in a quote* | past |  | my uncle |  |  |  |  | vn murder-42.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent uncle=Patient |

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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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