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title: I am Guy of Burgundy, subject to King Charles, and cousin to Roland… — Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of F… · tree and pragmatics
description: I am Guy of Burgundy, subject to King Charles, and cousin to Roland the Valiant." Who acts: I. A sentence of «Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France» by Alfred John Church, Of Guy of Burgundy, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France, Of Guy of Burgundy, sentence 20

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I am Guy of Burgundy, subject to King Charles, and cousin to Roland the Valiant."

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**Who acts:** I · **What happens:** be · **To what, where:** Guy

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This is a sentence of «Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France» by Alfred John Church, Of Guy of Burgundy. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (I), 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:pg75339:23:20
# text = I am Guy of Burgundy, subject to King Charles, and cousin to Roland the Valiant."
1	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
2	am	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	3	cop	_	_
3	Guy	Guy	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
4	of	of	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
5	Burgundy	Burgundy	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	7	punct	_	_
7	subject	subject	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	appos	_	_
8	to	to	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
9	King	King	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	10	nmod:desc	_	_
10	Charles	Charles	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	7	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
12	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	13	cc	_	_
13	cousin	cousin	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	appos	_	_
14	to	to	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
15	Roland	Roland	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	13	nmod	_	_
16	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
17	Valiant	Valiant	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	15	appos	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** | present | I | Guy |  |  |  | of Burgundy; subject to Charles  King *appos*; cousin to Roland *appos* | 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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