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title: Then said Reyner, that was father to Oliver, "Sire, if you listen to… — Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of F… · tree and pragmatics
description: Then said Reyner, that was father to Oliver, "Sire, if you listen to these men you will do this realm of France such damage as may never be undone." Who acts: Reyner, you. A sentence of «Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France» by Alfred John Church, Of Richard of Normandy, with its de
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# Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France, Of Richard of Normandy, sentence 107

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Then said Reyner, that was father to Oliver, "Sire, if you listen to these men you will do this realm of France such damage as may never be undone."

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**Who acts:** Reyner, you · **What happens:** say, be, listen, do, not undo · **To what, where:** father, Oliver, realm · **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 (Reyner, 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:pg75339:24:107
# text = Then said Reyner, that was father to Oliver, "Sire, if you listen to these men you will do this realm of France such damage as may never be undone."
1	Then	then	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	2	advmod	_	_
2	said	say	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	Reyner	Reyner	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	7	punct	_	_
5	that	that	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	7	det	_	_
6	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	7	cop	_	_
7	father	father	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	appos	_	_
8	to	to	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
9	Oliver	Oliver	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	7	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
11	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	12	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	Sire	sire	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	appos	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
14	if	if	SCONJ	IN	_	16	mark	_	_
15	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	16	nsubj	_	_
16	listen	listen	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	2	conj	_	_
17	to	to	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
18	these	this	DET	DT	Number=Plur|PronType=Dem	19	det	_	_
19	men	man	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	22	obl	_	_
20	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	22	nsubj	_	_
21	will	will	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	22	aux	_	_
22	do	do	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	16	ccomp	_	_
23	this	this	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	24	det	_	_
24	realm	realm	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	obj	_	_
25	of	of	ADP	IN	_	28	case	_	_
26	France	France	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	28	compound	_	_
27	such	such	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	28	amod	_	_
28	damage	damage	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	nmod	_	_
29	as	as	SCONJ	IN	_	33	mark	_	_
30	may	may	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	33	aux	_	_
31	never	never	ADV	RB	PronType=Neg	33	advmod	_	_
32	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	33	aux:pass	_	_
33	undone	undo	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	22	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
34	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
35	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **say** *speech: assert* | past | Reyner |  |  |  | then |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **is a** | past |  | that father | Oliver |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **listen** *a condition, not said to happen, in a quote* | present | you |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 4 | **do** *in a quote* | future | you | this realm of France such damage |  |  |  | to this men | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent realm=Eventuality |
| 5 | **not** **undo** *in a quote* | may · passive | you *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn destroy-44 «NP V NP» |

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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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