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title: Then said Lucifer, "I will teach you the manner of it," and he came… — Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of F… · tree and pragmatics
description: Then said Lucifer, "I will teach you the manner of it," and he came near to a great fire that was in the chamber, Roland making a sign meanwhile to the Duke that he should bear with the man's way. Who acts: Lucifer, that, chamber. A sentence of «Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France»
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# Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France, Of the Doings of the French Knights, sentence 29

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Then said Lucifer, "I will teach you the manner of it," and he came near to a great fire that was in the chamber, Roland making a sign meanwhile to the Duke that he should bear with the man's way.

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**Who acts:** Lucifer, that, chamber · **What happens:** say, teach, come, be, make, bear · **To what, where:** manner, you, great fire, chamber, sign, Duke · **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 (Lucifer, that, chamber), 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:pg75339:22:29
# text = Then said Lucifer, "I will teach you the manner of it," and he came near to a great fire that was in the chamber, Roland making a sign meanwhile to the Duke that he should bear with the man's way.
1	Then	then	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	2	advmod	_	_
2	said	say	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	Lucifer	Lucifer	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	8	punct	_	_
5	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	8	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	8	nsubj	_	_
7	will	will	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	8	aux	_	_
8	teach	teach	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	2	ccomp	_	_
9	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Person=2|PronType=Prs	8	iobj	_	_
10	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
11	manner	manner	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obj	_	_
12	of	of	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
13	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	11	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	8	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	8	punct	_	_
16	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	18	cc	_	_
17	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	18	nsubj	_	_
18	came	come	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	2	conj	_	_
19	near	near	ADV	RB	_	18	advmod	_	_
20	to	to	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
21	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	23	det	_	_
22	great	great	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	23	amod	_	_
23	fire	fire	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	obl	_	_
24	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	28	nsubj	_	_
25	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	28	cop	_	_
26	in	in	ADP	IN	_	28	case	_	_
27	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	28	det	_	_
28	chamber	chamber	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	parataxis	_	SpaceAfter=No
29	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	30	punct	_	_
30	Roland	Roland	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	28	appos	_	_
31	making	make	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	28	acl	_	_
32	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	33	det	_	_
33	sign	sign	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	31	obj	_	_
34	meanwhile	meanwhile	ADV	RB	_	37	advmod	_	_
35	to	to	ADP	IN	_	37	case	_	_
36	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	37	det	_	_
37	Duke	duke	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	31	obl	_	_
38	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	41	mark	_	_
39	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	41	nsubj	_	_
40	should	should	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	41	aux	_	_
41	bear	bear	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	37	acl	_	_
42	with	with	ADP	IN	_	46	case	_	_
43	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	44	det	_	_
44	man	man	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	46	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
45	's	's	PART	POS	_	44	case	_	_
46	way	way	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	41	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
47	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	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 | Lucifer |  |  |  | then |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 2 | **teach** *speech: other* *in a quote* | future | Lucifer | the manner of manner | you |  |  |  | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent you=Recipient manner=Topic |
| 3 | **come** | past | Lucifer |  |  | a great fire |  | near *property* | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme to fire=Initial\_Location |
| 4 | **is** | past | that |  |  | the chamber |  | Roland *appos* | tree rules |
| 5 | **make** | gerund | the chamber *not said here* | a sign |  |  |  | to the Duke | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset sign=Product |
| 6 | **bear** | should | Lucifer | the Duke *not said here* |  |  |  | with the man's way | vn birth-28.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent duke=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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