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title: Ogier the Dane answered as the Duke Naymes had answered, that there… — Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of F… · tree and pragmatics
description: Ogier the Dane answered as the Duke Naymes had answered, that there was no man who would go on such an errand. " Who acts: Ogier, man. A sentence of «Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France» by Alfred John Church, Of Richard of Normandy, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of e
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# Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France, Of Richard of Normandy, sentence 10

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Ogier the Dane answered as the Duke Naymes had answered, that there was no man who would go on such an errand. "

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**Who acts:** Ogier, man · **What happens:** answer, be, go · **To what, where:** Duke Naymes, man, errand · **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 Richard of Normandy. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Ogier, man), 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:pg75339:24:10
# text = Ogier the Dane answered as the Duke Naymes had answered, that there was no man who would go on such an errand. "
1	Ogier	Ogier	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	Dane	Dane	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	1	appos	_	_
4	answered	answer	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	as	as	SCONJ	IN	_	10	mark	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
7	Duke	Duke	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	8	compound	_	_
8	Naymes	Naymes	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	10	nsubj:pass	_	_
9	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	10	aux	_	_
10	answered	answer	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	16	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
12	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	14	mark	_	_
13	there	there	PRON	EX	PronType=Dem	14	expl	_	_
14	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	16	cop	_	_
15	no	no	DET	DT	PronType=Neg	16	det	_	_
16	man	man	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	ccomp	_	_
17	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	19	nsubj	_	_
18	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	19	aux	_	_
19	go	go	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	16	acl:relcl	_	_
20	on	on	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
21	such	such	DET	PDT	PronType=Ind	23	det:predet	_	_
22	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	23	det	_	_
23	errand	errand	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	16	punct	_	_
25	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	16	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **answer** *speech: assert* | past | Ogier |  |  |  |  |  | vn reciprocate-112-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **answer** *speech: assert* | past · perfect · passive |  | the Duke Naymes |  |  |  |  | vn reciprocate-112-1 «NP V PP»: subject=Eventuality |
| 3 | **is a** | past |  | no man |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 4 | **go** | would | no man |  |  | such errand |  |  | vn occur-48.3-2 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme on errand=Location |

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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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