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title: Sir Guy answered, "Madam, I cannot pray to them, for it seems to me… — Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of F… · tree and pragmatics
description: Sir Guy answered, "Madam, I cannot pray to them, for it seems to me that they are all asleep and take no heed of what may be said." Who acts: Sir Guy, it, churches. A sentence of «Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France» by Alfred John Church, Of the Doings of the French Knights, with 
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# Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France, Of the Doings of the French Knights, sentence 82

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Sir Guy answered, "Madam, I cannot pray to them, for it seems to me that they are all asleep and take no heed of what may be said."

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**Who acts:** Sir Guy, it, churches · **What happens:** answer, not pray, seem, be, take, say · **To what, where:** Madam, churches, Sir Guy, heed · **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 Guy, it, churches), 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:pg75339:22:82
# text = Sir Guy answered, "Madam, I cannot pray to them, for it seems to me that they are all asleep and take no heed of what may be said."
1	Sir	Sir	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	compound	_	_
2	Guy	Guy	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
3	answered	answer	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	6	punct	_	_
5	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	6	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	Madam	madam	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
8	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	11	nsubj	_	_
9	can	can	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	11	aux	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	11	advmod	_	_
11	pray	pray	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	3	parataxis	_	_
12	to	to	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
13	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	11	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	_
15	for	for	SCONJ	IN	_	17	mark	_	_
16	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	17	nsubj	_	_
17	seems	seem	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	11	conj	_	_
18	to	to	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
19	me	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	17	obl	_	_
20	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	24	mark	_	_
21	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	24	nsubj	_	_
22	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	24	cop	_	_
23	all	all	ADV	RB	_	24	advmod	_	_
24	asleep	asleep	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	17	xcomp	_	_
25	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	26	cc	_	_
26	take	take	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	24	conj	_	_
27	no	no	DET	DT	PronType=Neg	28	det	_	_
28	heed	heed	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	26	obj	_	_
29	of	of	ADP	IN	_	30	case	_	_
30	what	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	33	obj	_	_
31	may	may	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	33	aux	_	_
32	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	33	aux:pass	_	_
33	said	say	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	28	acl:relcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
34	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
35	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **answer** *speech: assert* | past | Sir Guy | Madam |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **not** **pray** *in a quote* | can | Sir Guy *= guy* |  | churches *= church* |  |  |  | vn long-32.2 «NP V S\_INF»: agent=Pivot |
| 3 | **seem** *in a quote* | present | it |  | Sir Guy *= guy* |  |  |  | vn seem-109-1-1-1 «NP V S\_INF»: agent=Theme |
| 4 | **is** *in a quote* | present | churches *= church* |  |  |  |  | all, asleep *property* | tree rules |
| 5 | **take** *in a quote* | infinitive | churches *= church* *not said here* | no heed |  |  |  |  | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent heed=Theme |
| 6 | **say** *speech: assert* *in a quote* | may · passive |  | no heed |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: what=Topic |

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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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