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title: "Be content, fair lady," answered Roland, "this fellow shall be made… — Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of F… · tree and pragmatics
description: "Be content, fair lady," answered Roland, "this fellow shall be made to know of his misdoing ere he depart hence. Who acts: you, Roland, fellow. A sentence of «Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France» by Alfred John Church, Of the Doings of the French Knights, with its dependency tree 
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# Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France, Of the Doings of the French Knights, sentence 13

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"Be content, fair lady," answered Roland, "this fellow shall be made to know of his misdoing ere he depart hence.

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**Who acts:** you, Roland, fellow · **What happens:** be, answer, make, know, depart · **To what, where:** fellow, misdoing ere · **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 the French Knights. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (you, Roland, fellow), 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:pg75339:22:13
# text = "Be content, fair lady," answered Roland, "this fellow shall be made to know of his misdoing ere he depart hence.
1	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	3	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	Be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	3	cop	_	_
3	content	content	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	6	punct	_	_
5	fair	fair	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	amod	_	_
6	lady	lady	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	3	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	3	punct	_	_
9	answered	answer	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	_
10	Roland	Roland	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	9	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	_
12	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	17	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	this	this	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	14	det	_	_
14	fellow	fellow	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	nsubj:pass	_	_
15	shall	shall	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	17	aux	_	_
16	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	17	aux:pass	_	_
17	made	make	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	3	conj	_	_
18	to	to	PART	TO	_	19	mark	_	_
19	know	know	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	17	xcomp	_	_
20	of	of	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
21	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	23	nmod:poss	_	_
22	misdoing	misdoing	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	compound	_	_
23	ere	ere	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	obl	_	_
24	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	25	nsubj	_	_
25	depart	depart	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|Typo=Yes|VerbForm=Fin	23	acl:relcl	_	_
26	hence	hence	ADV	RB	_	25	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** *in a quote* | imperative | you *not said here* |  |  |  |  | fair lady *conj*; content *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **answer** *speech: assert* | past | Roland |  |  |  |  |  | vn reciprocate-112-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **make** *in a quote* | shall · passive |  | this fellow |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 4 | **know** *in a quote* | to-infinitive | this fellow *not said here* |  |  |  |  | of Roland's misdoing ere | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V PP.stimulus»: agent=Experiencer of ere=Stimulus |
| 5 | **depart** *in a quote* | present | Roland | Roland's misdoing ere *not said here* |  |  |  | hence *property* | vn escape-51.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme ere=Initial\_Location |

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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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