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description: That cannot I do," answered the Admiral, "seeing that this Charles has won my strong city of Mantryble." Who acts: I, That, Charles. A sentence of «Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France» by Alfred John Church, Of the End of Balan the Admiral, with its dependency tree and the pragmati
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# Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France, Of the End of Balan the Admiral, sentence 5

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That cannot I do," answered the Admiral, "seeing that this Charles has won my strong city of Mantryble."

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**Who acts:** I, That, Charles · **What happens:** not do, answer, see, win · **To what, where:** Admiral, strong city

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This is a sentence of «Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France» by Alfred John Church, Of the End of Balan the Admiral. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (I, That, Charles), 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:pg75339:26:5
# text = That cannot I do," answered the Admiral, "seeing that this Charles has won my strong city of Mantryble."
1	That	that	PRON	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	8	nsubj	_	_
2	can	can	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	5	aux	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	5	advmod	_	_
4	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	5	nsubj	_	_
5	do	do	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	1	acl:relcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	1	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	1	punct	_	_
8	answered	answer	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
9	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
10	Admiral	admiral	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
12	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	13	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	seeing	see	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	8	advcl	_	_
14	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	18	mark	_	_
15	this	this	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	16	det	_	_
16	Charles	Charles	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	18	nsubj	_	_
17	has	have	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	18	aux	_	_
18	won	win	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	13	advcl	_	_
19	my	my	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	21	nmod:poss	_	_
20	strong	strong	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	21	amod	_	_
21	city	city	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	obj	_	_
22	of	of	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
23	Mantryble	Mantryble	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	21	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	13	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	13	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **not** **do** | can | I |  |  |  |  |  | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **answer** *speech: assert* *in a quote* | past | That | the Admiral |  |  |  |  | vn reciprocate-112-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent admiral=Eventuality |
| 3 | **see** | gerund | That *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer |
| 4 | **win** | present · perfect | this Charles | my strong city of Mantryble |  |  |  |  | vn succeed-74-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent city=Eventuality |

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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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