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title: King Marsilas also bids me say that he is not to be blamed because h… — Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of F… · tree and pragmatics
description: King Marsilas also bids me say that he is not to be blamed because he does not send the Vizier. Who acts: King. A sentence of «Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France» by Alfred John Church, Of the Plot Against Roland, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France, Of the Plot Against Roland, sentence 5

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King Marsilas also bids me say that he is not to be blamed because he does not send the Vizier.

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**Who acts:** King · **What happens:** bid, say, not be, not send · **To what, where:** me, King, Vizier · **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 Plot Against Roland. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (King), 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:pg75339:29:5
# text = King Marsilas also bids me say that he is not to be blamed because he does not send the Vizier.
1	King	King	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
2	Marsilas	Marsilas	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	1	flat	_	_
3	also	also	ADV	RB	_	4	advmod	_	_
4	bids	bid	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	me	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	4	obj	_	_
6	say	say	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	4	xcomp	_	_
7	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	13	mark	_	_
8	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	13	nsubj:pass	_	_
9	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	13	cop	_	_
10	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	13	advmod	_	_
11	to	to	PART	TO	_	13	mark	_	_
12	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	13	aux:pass	_	_
13	blamed	blame	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	6	ccomp	_	_
14	because	because	SCONJ	IN	_	18	mark	_	_
15	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	18	nsubj	_	_
16	does	do	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	18	aux	_	_
17	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	18	advmod	_	_
18	send	send	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	13	advcl	_	_
19	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	20	det	_	_
20	Vizier	Vizier	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	18	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **bid** | present | King | me |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **say** *speech: assert* | infinitive | King *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V how S\_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 3 | **not** **is** | present · passive |  | King |  |  |  | blame *property* | tree rules |
| 4 | **not** **send** | present · do-support | King | the Vizier |  |  |  |  | vn confine-92-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent vizier=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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