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title: Then Roland comforted her saying, "Be not troubled, lady, you shall… — Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of F… · tree and pragmatics
description: Then Roland comforted her saying, "Be not troubled, lady, you shall see Sir Guy again in no long time. Who acts: Roland, you. 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 8

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Then Roland comforted her saying, "Be not troubled, lady, you shall see Sir Guy again in no long time.

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**Who acts:** Roland, you · **What happens:** comfort, not be, see, say · **To what, where:** saying, Sir Guy · **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 (Roland, you), 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:pg75339:23:8
# text = Then Roland comforted her saying, "Be not troubled, lady, you shall see Sir Guy again in no long time.
1	Then	then	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	3	advmod	_	_
2	Roland	Roland	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
3	comforted	comfort	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	5	nmod:poss	_	_
5	saying	saying	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
7	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	10	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	Be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	10	cop	_	_
9	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	10	advmod	_	_
10	troubled	troubled	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	parataxis	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
12	lady	lady	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
14	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	16	nsubj	_	_
15	shall	shall	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	16	aux	_	_
16	see	see	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	3	conj	_	_
17	Sir	Sir	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	18	compound	_	_
18	Guy	Guy	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	16	obj	_	_
19	again	again	ADV	RB	_	16	advmod	_	_
20	in	in	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
21	no	no	DET	DT	PronType=Neg	23	det	_	_
22	long	long	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	23	amod	_	_
23	time	time	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **comfort** | past | Roland | Roland's saying |  |  | then |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **not** **is** *in a quote* | infinitive |  |  |  |  |  | lady *conj*; troubled *property* | tree rules |
| 3 | **see** *in a quote* | shall | you | Sir Guy |  |  | again; time |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer guy=Stimulus |
| 4 | **say** |  | Roland |  |  |  |  |  | nom saying «communication transitive»: poss=agent |

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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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