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title: "Sir," said Lucifer, "this was not well done of you, to trust these… — Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of F… · tree and pragmatics
description: "Sir," said Lucifer, "this was not well done of you, to trust these prisoners to a woman, for women are apt to change, and to turn from one thing to another. Who acts: Sir, women. A sentence of «Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France» by Alfred John Church, Of the Doings of the French
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# Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France, Of the Doings of the French Knights, sentence 7

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"Sir," said Lucifer, "this was not well done of you, to trust these prisoners to a woman, for women are apt to change, and to turn from one thing to another.

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**Who acts:** Sir, women · **What happens:** say, not do, trust, be, change, turn · **To what, where:** this, prisoners, woman, one thing · **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 (Sir, women), 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:pg75339:22:7
# text = "Sir," said Lucifer, "this was not well done of you, to trust these prisoners to a woman, for women are apt to change, and to turn from one thing to another.
1	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	2	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	Sir	Sir	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	2	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	2	punct	_	_
5	said	say	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
6	Lucifer	Lucifer	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
8	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	13	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	this	this	PRON	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	13	nsubj	_	_
10	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	13	aux:pass	_	_
11	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	13	advmod	_	_
12	well	well	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	13	advmod	_	_
13	done	do	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	5	conj	_	_
14	of	of	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
15	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Person=2|PronType=Prs	13	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	_
17	to	to	PART	TO	_	18	mark	_	_
18	trust	trust	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	5	ccomp	_	_
19	these	this	DET	DT	Number=Plur|PronType=Dem	20	det	_	_
20	prisoners	prisoner	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	18	obj	_	_
21	to	to	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
22	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	23	det	_	_
23	woman	woman	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	28	punct	_	_
25	for	for	SCONJ	IN	_	28	mark	_	_
26	women	woman	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	28	nsubj	_	_
27	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	28	cop	_	_
28	apt	apt	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	18	conj	_	_
29	to	to	PART	TO	_	30	mark	_	_
30	change	change	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	28	csubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
31	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	34	punct	_	_
32	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	34	cc	_	_
33	to	to	PART	TO	_	34	mark	_	_
34	turn	turn	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	30	conj	_	_
35	from	from	ADP	IN	_	37	case	_	_
36	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	37	nummod	_	_
37	thing	thing	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	34	obl	_	_
38	to	to	ADP	IN	_	39	case	_	_
39	another	another	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	37	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
40	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	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 | Sir |  |  |  |  | Lucifer *nsubj* | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 2 | **not** **do** *in a quote* | past · passive |  | this |  |  |  | of you; well *property* | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Eventuality |
| 3 | **trust** *in a quote* | to-infinitive |  | this prisoners | a woman |  |  |  | vn fulfilling-13.4.1 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent prisoner=Theme to woman=Recipient |
| 4 | **is** *in a quote* | present | women |  |  |  |  | apt *property* | tree rules |
| 5 | **change** *in a quote* | to-infinitive |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn dress-41.1.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 6 | **turn** *in a quote* | to-infinitive |  |  |  | one thing to another |  |  | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V PP.trajectory»: agent=Theme from thing=Trajectory |

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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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