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description: This Conifer cried out, "Ho, ye French knaves, come you to succour this malefactor? Who acts: Conifer, ye. 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 61

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This Conifer cried out, "Ho, ye French knaves, come you to succour this malefactor?

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**Who acts:** Conifer, ye · **What happens:** cry out, knave, come, succour · **To what, where:** Ho, you, malefactor · **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 (Conifer, ye), 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:pg75339:23:61
# text = This Conifer cried out, "Ho, ye French knaves, come you to succour this malefactor?
1	This	this	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	2	det	_	_
2	Conifer	Conifer	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
3	cried	cry	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	out	out	ADP	RP	_	3	compound:prt	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	7	punct	_	_
6	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	7	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	Ho	Ho	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
9	ye	ye	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch	11	nsubj	_	_
10	French	French	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	11	amod	_	_
11	knaves	knave	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	7	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
13	come	come	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	_
14	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Person=2|PronType=Prs	13	obj	_	_
15	to	to	PART	TO	_	16	mark	_	_
16	succour	succour	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	13	advcl	_	_
17	this	this	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	18	det	_	_
18	malefactor	malefactor	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	obj	_	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 | **cry out** *speech: express* | past | this Conifer | Ho and French knaves |  |  |  |  | vn manner\_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **knave** *in a quote* |  | ye |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **come** *in a quote* | present | this Conifer *not said here* | you |  |  |  |  | vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location you=Theme |
| 4 | **succour** *in a quote* | to-infinitive | this Conifer *not said here* | this malefactor |  |  |  |  | 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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