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title: Thereupon Roland said to Guy of Burgundy, "Bring to mind the promise… — Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of F… · tree and pragmatics
description: Thereupon Roland said to Guy of Burgundy, "Bring to mind the promise which you made to Floripas, the Admiral's daughter, that you would take her to wife." " Who acts: Roland, promise, Guy. A sentence of «Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France» by Alfred John Church, Of the End of Bala
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# Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France, Of the End of Balan the Admiral, sentence 79

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Thereupon Roland said to Guy of Burgundy, "Bring to mind the promise which you made to Floripas, the Admiral's daughter, that you would take her to wife." "

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**Who acts:** Roland, promise, Guy · **What happens:** say, bring, mind, make, take · **To what, where:** Guy, promise, Floripas, daughter · **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 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 (Roland, promise, Guy), 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:pg75339:26:79
# text = Thereupon Roland said to Guy of Burgundy, "Bring to mind the promise which you made to Floripas, the Admiral's daughter, that you would take her to wife." "
1	Thereupon	thereupon	ADV	RB	_	3	advmod	_	_
2	Roland	Roland	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
3	said	say	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	to	to	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
5	Guy	Guy	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	_
6	of	of	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
7	Burgundy	Burgundy	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	5	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
9	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	10	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	Bring	bring	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	3	ccomp	_	_
11	to	to	PART	TO	_	12	mark	_	_
12	mind	mind	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	10	xcomp	_	_
13	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
14	promise	promise	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	obj	_	_
15	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	17	nsubj	_	_
16	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	17	nsubj	_	_
17	made	make	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	14	acl:relcl	_	_
18	to	to	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
19	Floripas	Floripas	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	17	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	24	punct	_	_
21	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	22	det	_	_
22	Admiral	Admiral	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	24	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	's	's	PART	POS	_	22	case	_	_
24	daughter	daughter	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	29	punct	_	_
26	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	29	mark	_	_
27	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	29	nsubj	_	_
28	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	29	aux	_	_
29	take	take	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	12	advcl	_	_
30	her	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	29	obj	_	_
31	to	to	PART	TO	_	32	mark	_	_
32	wife	wife	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	29	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
33	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	10	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
34	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	10	punct	_	_
35	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	10	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **say** *speech: assert* | past | Roland |  | Guy of Burgundy |  |  | thereupon *property* | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V PP.recipient S-Quote»: agent=Agent to guy=Recipient clause=Topic |
| 2 | **bring** *in a quote* | infinitive |  |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **mind** *in a quote* | to-infinitive |  | the promise |  |  |  |  | vn caring-75.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent promise=Theme |
| 4 | **make** *in a quote* | past | the promise |  | Floripas and the Admiral's daughter |  |  | you *nsubj* | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset |
| 5 | **take** *in a quote* | would | Guy of Burgundy *= guy* |  | daughter |  |  | wife *advcl* | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP ADVP»: agent=Instrument she=Destination |

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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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