--- title: But the Duke Naymes answered, "That would be ill done, Sir Roland; y… — Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of F… · tree and pragmatics description: But the Duke Naymes answered, "That would be ill done, Sir Roland; you must not go hence; the Saracens would not have so much fear of us by a half as now they have if you were gone." Who acts: Duke Naymes, you, Saracens. 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The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Duke Naymes, you, Saracens), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. **Mova's own parse.** This tree may be wrong. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = book:pg75339:24:13 # text = But the Duke Naymes answered, "That would be ill done, Sir Roland; you must not go hence; the Saracens would not have so much fear of us by a half as now they have if you were gone." 1 But but CCONJ CC _ 5 cc _ _ 2 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 4 det _ _ 3 Duke Duke PROPN NNP Number=Sing 4 compound _ _ 4 Naymes Naymes PROPN NNP Number=Sing 5 nsubj _ _ 5 answered answer VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ SpaceAfter=No 6 , , PUNCT , _ 12 punct _ _ 7 " " PUNCT `` _ 12 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 8 That that PRON DT Number=Sing|PronType=Dem 12 nsubj _ _ 9 would would AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 12 aux _ _ 10 be be AUX VB VerbForm=Inf 12 aux:pass _ _ 11 ill ill ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 12 advmod _ _ 12 done do VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 5 ccomp _ SpaceAfter=No 13 , , PUNCT , _ 14 punct _ _ 14 Sir Sir PROPN NNP Number=Sing 12 obl _ _ 15 Roland Roland PROPN NNP Number=Sing 14 flat _ SpaceAfter=No 16 ; ; PUNCT : _ 20 punct _ _ 17 you you PRON PRP Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs 20 nsubj _ _ 18 must must AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 20 aux _ _ 19 not not PART RB Polarity=Neg 20 advmod _ _ 20 go go VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 5 ccomp _ _ 21 hence hence ADV RB _ 20 advmod _ SpaceAfter=No 22 ; ; PUNCT : _ 27 punct _ _ 23 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 24 det _ _ 24 Saracens saracen NOUN NNS Number=Plur 27 nsubj _ _ 25 would would AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 27 aux _ _ 26 not not PART RB Polarity=Neg 27 advmod _ _ 27 have have VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 20 conj _ _ 28 so so ADV RB _ 29 advmod _ _ 29 much much ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 30 amod _ _ 30 fear fear NOUN NN Number=Sing 27 obj _ _ 31 of of ADP IN _ 32 case _ _ 32 us we PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs 30 nmod _ _ 33 by by ADP IN _ 35 case _ _ 34 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 35 det _ _ 35 half half NOUN NN Number=Sing|NumForm=Word|NumType=Frac 27 obl _ _ 36 as as ADP IN _ 37 case _ _ 37 now now ADV RB PronType=Dem 39 obl _ _ 38 they they PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 39 nsubj _ _ 39 have have VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 27 parataxis _ _ 40 if if SCONJ IN _ 43 mark _ _ 41 you you PRON PRP Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs 43 nsubj _ _ 42 were be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 43 cop _ _ 43 gone gone ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 39 advcl _ SpaceAfter=No 44 . . PUNCT . _ 20 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 45 " " PUNCT '' _ 20 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **answer** *speech: assert* | past | the Duke Naymes | | | | | | tree rules | | 2 | **do** *in a quote* | would · passive | | That | | | | Sir *obl* | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Eventuality | | 3 | **not** **go** *in a quote* | must | you | | | | | hence *property* | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 4 | **not** **have** *in a quote* | would | the Saracens | much fear of us | | | | by a half | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent fear=Patient | | 5 | **have** *in a quote* | present | Saracens *= saracen* | | | | | | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | | 6 | **is** *a condition, not said to happen, in a quote* | past | you | | | | | gone *property* | tree rules | | 7 | **fear** *in a quote* | | | us | | | | | nom fear «feeling transitive»: of=patient | 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. **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. - ← previous: [sentence 12](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg75339/24/12/) - next →: [sentence 14](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg75339/24/14/) - ↑ back to [Of Richard of Normandy](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg75339/24/)