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title: So after a while the King, Fierabras helping, made peace, but "first… — Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of F… · tree and pragmatics
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# Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France, Of Richard of Normandy, sentence 114

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So after a while the King, Fierabras helping, made peace, but "first," said he, "Aloys that spake so scornfully of Duke Reyner must crave pardon."

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**Who acts:** King, Aloys, helping · **What happens:** help, make, say, speak, crave · **To what, where:** Aloys, peace, pardon · **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 (King, Aloys, helping), 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:pg75339:24:114
# text = So after a while the King, Fierabras helping, made peace, but "first," said he, "Aloys that spake so scornfully of Duke Reyner must crave pardon."
1	So	so	ADV	RB	_	32	advmod	_	_
2	after	after	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
3	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	while	while	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	obl	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	King	King	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	9	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	8	punct	_	_
8	Fierabras	Fierabras	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	6	conj	_	_
9	helping	help	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	32	csubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
11	made	make	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	9	xcomp	_	_
12	peace	peace	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	19	punct	_	_
14	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	19	cc	_	_
15	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	16	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	first	first	ADV	RB	NumForm=Word|NumType=Ord	19	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	16	punct	_	_
19	said	say	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	9	conj	_	_
20	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	19	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	23	punct	_	_
22	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	23	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	Aloys	aloy	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	9	obl	_	_
24	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	25	nsubj	_	_
25	spake	speak	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	23	acl:relcl	_	_
26	so	so	ADV	RB	_	27	advmod	_	_
27	scornfully	scornfully	ADV	RB	_	25	advmod	_	_
28	of	of	ADP	IN	_	29	case	_	_
29	Duke	Duke	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	27	obl	_	_
30	Reyner	Reyner	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	29	flat	_	_
31	must	must	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	32	aux	_	_
32	crave	crave	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
33	pardon	pardon	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	32	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
34	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	32	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
35	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	32	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **help** | gerund | the King and Fierabras | Aloys |  |  |  |  | vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V NP S\_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Theme |
| 2 | **make** | participle | Aloys *not said here* | peace |  |  |  |  | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset peace=Product |
| 3 | **say** *speech: assert* | past | King |  |  |  |  | first *property* | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent |
| 4 | **speak** *speech: other* *in a quote* | present | Aloys |  |  |  |  | scornfully *property* | vn talk-37.5 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 5 | **crave** *in a quote* | must | helping | pardon |  |  |  |  | vn want-32.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot pardon=Theme |

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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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