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title: So he would not listen to Sir Simon; no, nor yet to his wife the Duc… — Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of F… · tree and pragmatics
description: So he would not listen to Sir Simon; no, nor yet to his wife the Duchess, though she was urgent with him to speak peaceably to the King's messengers. Who acts: Duke, wife. A sentence of «Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France» by Alfred John Church, The Slaying of Lothair, with its de
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# Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France, The Slaying of Lothair, sentence 29

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So he would not listen to Sir Simon; no, nor yet to his wife the Duchess, though she was urgent with him to speak peaceably to the King's messengers.

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**Who acts:** Duke, wife · **What happens:** not listen, be, speak · **To what, where:** Sir, messengers · **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, The Slaying of Lothair. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Duke, wife), 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:pg75339:3:29
# text = So he would not listen to Sir Simon; no, nor yet to his wife the Duchess, though she was urgent with him to speak peaceably to the King's messengers.
1	So	so	ADV	RB	_	5	advmod	_	_
2	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	5	nsubj	_	_
3	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	5	aux	_	_
4	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	5	advmod	_	_
5	listen	listen	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
6	to	to	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
7	Sir	Sir	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	5	obl	_	_
8	Simon	Simon	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	7	flat	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	5	punct	_	_
10	no	no	INTJ	UH	Polarity=Neg	5	discourse	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
12	nor	nor	CCONJ	CC	Polarity=Neg	16	cc	_	_
13	yet	yet	ADV	RB	_	16	advmod	_	_
14	to	to	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
15	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	16	nmod:poss	_	_
16	wife	wife	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obl	_	_
17	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
18	Duchess	Duchess	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	16	appos	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	23	punct	_	_
20	though	though	SCONJ	IN	_	23	mark	_	_
21	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	23	nsubj	_	_
22	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	23	cop	_	_
23	urgent	urgent	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	parataxis	_	_
24	with	with	ADP	IN	_	25	case	_	_
25	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	23	obl	_	_
26	to	to	PART	TO	_	27	mark	_	_
27	speak	speak	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	23	advcl	_	_
28	peaceably	peaceably	ADV	RB	_	33	advmod	_	_
29	to	to	ADP	IN	_	33	case	_	_
30	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	31	det	_	_
31	King	King	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	33	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
32	's	's	PART	POS	_	31	case	_	_
33	messengers	messenger	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	27	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
34	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **not** **listen** | would | Duke |  | Sir |  |  | to Duke's wife | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent to sir=Theme |
| 2 | **is** | past | wife |  |  |  |  | with Duke; urgent *property* | tree rules |
| 3 | **speak** *speech: other* | to-infinitive | wife *not said here* | the King's messengers |  |  |  |  | tree rules |

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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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