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description: Friends," said the Admiral, "advise me what I shall do with this prisoner who sets me at nought most shamefully." Who acts: Friends, I, prisoner. 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 pragmati
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# Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France, Of Guy of Burgundy, sentence 32

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Friends," said the Admiral, "advise me what I shall do with this prisoner who sets me at nought most shamefully."

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**Who acts:** Friends, I, prisoner · **What happens:** say, advise, do, set · **To what, where:** Admiral, me, nought · **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 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 (Friends, I, prisoner), 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:pg75339:23:32
# text = Friends," said the Admiral, "advise me what I shall do with this prisoner who sets me at nought most shamefully."
1	Friends	friend	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	1	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	1	punct	_	_
4	said	say	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	Admiral	admiral	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	9	punct	_	_
8	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	9	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	advise	advise	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	4	ccomp	_	_
10	me	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	9	obj	_	_
11	what	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	14	obj	_	_
12	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	14	nsubj	_	_
13	shall	shall	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	14	aux	_	_
14	do	do	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	9	ccomp	_	_
15	with	with	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
16	this	this	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	17	det	_	_
17	prisoner	prisoner	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	obl	_	_
18	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	19	nsubj	_	_
19	sets	set	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	17	acl:relcl	_	_
20	me	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	19	obj	_	_
21	at	at	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
22	nought	nought	PRON	NN	PronType=Neg	19	obl	_	_
23	most	most	ADV	RBS	Degree=Sup	24	advmod	_	_
24	shamefully	shamefully	ADV	RB	_	19	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	9	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	9	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **say** *speech: assert* *in a quote* | past | Friends | the Admiral |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **advise** *speech: other* | infinitive |  | me |  |  |  |  | vn advise-37.9-1 «NP V NP how S\_INF»: agent=Agent i=Recipient clause=Topic |
| 3 | **do** | shall | I |  |  |  |  | with this prisoner; what *obj* | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent what=Eventuality |
| 4 | **set** | present | this prisoner | me |  | nought |  | shamefully *property* | vn put-9.1-2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent i=Theme at nought=Destination |

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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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