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title: But Roland was angry, and said, "What devil prompts you to speak of… — Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of F… · tree and pragmatics
description: But Roland was angry, and said, "What devil prompts you to speak of love; this is not the time for such talk." Who acts: Roland, devil, this. 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 pragm
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# Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France, Of the Doings of Floripas, sentence 54

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But Roland was angry, and said, "What devil prompts you to speak of love; this is not the time for such talk."

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**Who acts:** Roland, devil, this · **What happens:** be, say, prompt, speak, not be · **To what, where:** you, time · **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 (Roland, devil, 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:pg75339:21:54
# text = But Roland was angry, and said, "What devil prompts you to speak of love; this is not the time for such talk."
1	But	but	CCONJ	CC	_	4	cc	_	_
2	Roland	Roland	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
3	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	cop	_	_
4	angry	angry	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	7	punct	_	_
6	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	7	cc	_	_
7	said	say	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	parataxis	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
9	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	12	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	What	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	12	obj	_	_
11	devil	devil	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	nsubj	_	_
12	prompts	prompt	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	7	conj	_	_
13	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Person=2|PronType=Prs	12	obj	_	_
14	to	to	PART	TO	_	15	mark	_	_
15	speak	speak	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	12	xcomp	_	_
16	of	of	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
17	love	love	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	23	punct	_	_
19	this	this	PRON	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	23	nsubj	_	_
20	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	23	cop	_	_
21	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	23	advmod	_	_
22	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	23	det	_	_
23	time	time	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	conj	_	_
24	for	for	ADP	IN	_	26	case	_	_
25	such	such	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	26	amod	_	_
26	talk	talk	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	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 | **is** | past | Roland |  |  |  |  | angry *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **say** *speech: assert* | past |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **prompt** *in a quote* | present | devil | you |  |  |  | What *obj* | tree rules |
| 4 | **speak** *speech: other* *in a quote* | to-infinitive | devil *not said here* |  |  |  |  | of love | vn talk-37.5 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 5 | **not** **is a** *in a quote* | present | this | the time |  |  |  | for such talk | tree rules |

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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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