--- title: His lords sought to comfort him, and Duke Naymes said, "Now bury you… — Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of F… · tree and pragmatics description: His lords sought to comfort him, and Duke Naymes said, "Now bury your son with great honour at St. Germaine's, and when you have done this, gather together your army, and march against this Duke Benes." Who acts: lords, Duke, you. 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The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (lords, Duke, you), 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:pg75339:3:101 # text = His lords sought to comfort him, and Duke Naymes said, "Now bury your son with great honour at St. Germaine's, and when you have done this, gather together your army, and march against this Duke Benes." 1 His his PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 2 nmod:poss _ _ 2 lords lord NOUN NNS Number=Plur 3 nsubj _ _ 3 sought seek VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 4 to to PART TO _ 5 mark _ _ 5 comfort comfort VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 3 xcomp _ _ 6 him he PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 5 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 7 , , PUNCT , _ 11 punct _ _ 8 and and CCONJ CC _ 11 cc _ _ 9 Duke Duke PROPN NNP Number=Sing 11 nsubj _ _ 10 Naymes Naymes PROPN NNP Number=Sing 9 flat _ _ 11 said say VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 3 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 12 , , PUNCT , _ 15 punct _ _ 13 " " PUNCT `` _ 15 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 14 Now now ADV RB PronType=Dem 15 advmod _ _ 15 bury bury VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 11 ccomp _ _ 16 your your PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 17 nmod:poss _ _ 17 son son NOUN NN Number=Sing 15 obj _ _ 18 with with ADP IN _ 20 case _ _ 19 great great ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 20 amod _ _ 20 honour honour NOUN NN Number=Sing 15 obl _ _ 21 at at ADP IN _ 23 case _ _ 22 St. St. PROPN NNP Number=Sing 23 nmod:desc _ _ 23 Germaine Germaine PROPN NNP Number=Sing 20 nmod _ SpaceAfter=No 24 's 's PART POS _ 23 case _ SpaceAfter=No 25 , , PUNCT , _ 30 punct _ _ 26 and and CCONJ CC _ 30 cc _ _ 27 when when ADV WRB PronType=Int 30 advmod _ _ 28 you you PRON PRP Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs 30 nsubj _ _ 29 have have AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 30 aux _ _ 30 done do VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part 15 parataxis _ _ 31 this this PRON DT Number=Sing|PronType=Dem 30 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 32 , , PUNCT , _ 33 punct _ _ 33 gather gather VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 15 conj _ _ 34 together together ADV RB _ 33 advmod _ _ 35 your your PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 36 nmod:poss _ _ 36 army army NOUN NN Number=Sing 33 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 37 , , PUNCT , _ 39 punct _ _ 38 and and CCONJ CC _ 39 cc _ _ 39 march march NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 obl _ _ 40 against against ADP IN _ 43 case _ _ 41 this this PRON DT Number=Sing|PronType=Dem 43 nsubj _ _ 42 Duke Duke PROPN NNP Number=Sing 43 compound _ _ 43 Benes Benes PROPN NNP Number=Sing 39 nmod _ SpaceAfter=No 44 . . PUNCT . _ 3 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 45 " " PUNCT '' _ 3 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **seek** | past | King's lords | march against Duke Benes this | | | | | tree rules | | 2 | **comfort** *not said to happen* | to-infinitive | King's lords *not said here* | King | | | | | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus he=Experiencer | | 3 | **say** *speech: assert* | past | Duke | | | | | | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | | 4 | **bury** *in a quote* | infinitive | | your son | | | now | with great honour at Germaine St. | vn put-9.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent son=Theme | | 5 | **do** *in a quote* | present · perfect | you | this | | | | | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent this=Eventuality | | 6 | **gather** *in a quote* | infinitive | | your army | | | | together *property* | vn deduce-97.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent army=Theme | 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 100](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg75339/3/100/) - next →: [sentence 102](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg75339/3/102/) - ↑ back to [The Slaying of Lothair](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg75339/3/)