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title: "Yes," answered Ganelon; "I perceive that I must go to Saragossa, an… — Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of F… · tree and pragmatics
description: "Yes," answered Ganelon; "I perceive that I must go to Saragossa, and he that goes thither comes not back. Who acts: Ganelon. A sentence of «Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France» by Alfred John Church, How Ganelon Went on an Errand to King Marsilas, with its dependency tree and the 
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# Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France, How Ganelon Went on an Errand to King Marsilas, sentence 111

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"Yes," answered Ganelon; "I perceive that I must go to Saragossa, and he that goes thither comes not back.

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**Who acts:** Ganelon · **What happens:** answer, perceive, go, not come back · **To what, where:** Saragossa · **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, How Ganelon Went on an Errand to King Marsilas. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Ganelon), 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:pg75339:27:111
# text = "Yes," answered Ganelon; "I perceive that I must go to Saragossa, and he that goes thither comes not back.
1	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	5	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	Yes	yes	INTJ	UH	Polarity=Pos	5	discourse	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	2	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	5	punct	_	_
5	answered	answer	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
6	Ganelon	Ganelon	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	5	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
8	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	10	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	10	nsubj	_	_
10	perceive	perceive	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	5	conj	_	_
11	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	14	mark	_	_
12	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	14	nsubj	_	_
13	must	must	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	14	aux	_	_
14	go	go	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	10	ccomp	_	_
15	to	to	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
16	Saragossa	Saragossa	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	14	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	21	punct	_	_
18	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	21	cc	_	_
19	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	21	nsubj	_	_
20	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	21	nsubj	_	_
21	goes	go	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	5	conj	_	_
22	thither	thither	ADV	RB	_	23	advmod	_	_
23	comes	come	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	21	conj	_	_
24	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	23	advmod	_	_
25	back	back	ADV	RB	_	23	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **answer** *speech: assert* | past | Ganelon |  |  |  |  |  | vn reciprocate-112-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **perceive** *in a quote* | present | Ganelon |  |  |  |  |  | vn see-30.1-1 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus |
| 3 | **go** *in a quote* | must | Ganelon |  |  | Saragossa |  |  | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme to saragossa=Initial\_Location |
| 4 | **go** *in a quote* | present | Ganelon |  |  |  |  | that *nsubj* | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 5 | **not** **come back** *in a quote* | present | Ganelon *not said here* |  |  |  |  | thither *property* | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=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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