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title: Listen to me," he said, "Sir Roland and Sir Oliver. — Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of F… · tree and pragmatics
description: Listen to me," he said, "Sir Roland and Sir Oliver. Who acts: Archbishop. A sentence of «Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France» by Alfred John Church, How Roland Sounded His Horn, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France, How Roland Sounded His Horn, sentence 23

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Listen to me," he said, "Sir Roland and Sir Oliver.

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**Who acts:** Archbishop · **What happens:** listen, say · **To what, where:** me · **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 Roland Sounded His Horn. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Archbishop), 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:pg75339:32:23
# text = Listen to me," he said, "Sir Roland and Sir Oliver.
1	Listen	listen	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	7	ccomp	_	_
2	to	to	ADP	IN	_	3	case	_	_
3	me	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	1	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	1	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	1	punct	_	_
6	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	7	nsubj	_	_
7	said	say	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	7	punct	_	_
9	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	11	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	Sir	Sir	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	11	nmod:desc	_	_
11	Roland	Roland	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	7	ccomp	_	_
12	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	13	cc	_	_
13	Sir	Sir	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	11	conj	_	_
14	Oliver	Oliver	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	11	flat	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	7	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **listen** | infinitive |  |  | me |  |  |  | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent to i=Theme |
| 2 | **say** *speech: assert* *in a quote* | past | Archbishop |  |  |  |  | Roland  Sir and Sir *ccomp* | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |

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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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