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" **Who acts:** Charles, Sire · **What happens:** say, give, leave, depart, need, go · **To what, where:** Charles · **Speech:** someone speaks here 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 (Charles, Sire), 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:pg75339:27:143 # text = To King Charles he said, "Sire, give me leave to depart, since I must needs go, 'twere well to lose no time." " 1 To to ADP IN _ 3 case _ _ 2 King King PROPN NNP Number=Sing 3 nmod:desc _ _ 3 Charles Charles PROPN NNP Number=Sing 5 obl _ _ 4 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 5 nsubj _ _ 5 said say VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ SpaceAfter=No 6 , , PUNCT , _ 8 punct _ _ 7 " " PUNCT `` _ 8 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 8 Sire sire NOUN NN Number=Sing 10 nsubj _ SpaceAfter=No 9 , , PUNCT , _ 8 punct _ _ 10 give give VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 5 ccomp _ _ 11 me I PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 10 iobj _ _ 12 leave leave VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 10 xcomp _ _ 13 to to PART TO _ 14 mark _ _ 14 depart depart VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 12 xcomp _ SpaceAfter=No 15 , , PUNCT , _ 19 punct _ _ 16 since since SCONJ IN _ 19 mark _ _ 17 I I PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 19 nsubj _ _ 18 must must AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 19 aux _ _ 19 needs need VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 5 ccomp _ _ 20 go go VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 19 xcomp _ SpaceAfter=No 21 , , PUNCT , _ 26 punct _ _ 22 ' ' PUNCT `` _ 26 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 23 twere twere ADV RB ExtPos=ADV 26 advmod _ _ 24 well well ADV RB Degree=Pos 23 fixed _ _ 25 to to PART TO _ 26 mark _ _ 26 lose lose VERB VB Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin 19 parataxis _ _ 27 no no DET DT PronType=Neg 28 det _ _ 28 time time NOUN NN Number=Sing 26 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 29 . . PUNCT . _ 26 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 30 " " PUNCT '' _ 26 punct _ _ 31 " " PUNCT '' _ 19 punct _ SpaceAfter=No ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **say** *speech: assert* | past | Charles | | Charles King | | | | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V PP.recipient S-Quote»: agent=Agent to charles=Recipient clause=Topic | | 2 | **give** *in a quote* | infinitive | Sire | | Charles | | | | tree rules | | 3 | **leave** *in a quote* | infinitive | Sire *not said here* | | | | | | tree rules | | 4 | **depart** *in a quote* | to-infinitive | Sire *not said here* | | | | | | vn escape-51.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 5 | **need** *in a quote* | must | Charles | | | | | | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S\_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme | | 6 | **go** *not said to happen, in a quote* | infinitive | Charles *not said here* | | | | | | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 7 | **lose** *in a quote* | to-infinitive | | | | | time | twere *property* | vn succeed-74-3-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | 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 142](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg75339/27/142/) - next →: [sentence 144](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg75339/27/144/) - ↑ back to [How Ganelon Went on an Errand to King Marsilas](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg75339/27/)