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title: Say now to which of my two sons, Charlot and Lewis, I shall resign it. — Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of F… · tree and pragmatics
description: Say now to which of my two sons, Charlot and Lewis, I shall resign it. Who acts: you, I. A sentence of «Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France» by Alfred John Church, How King Charles Sent Huon on an Errand, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France, How King Charles Sent Huon on an Errand, sentence 3

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Say now to which of my two sons, Charlot and Lewis, I shall resign it.

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**Who acts:** you, I · **What happens:** say, resign · **To what, where:** power · **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 King Charles Sent Huon on an Errand. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (you, I), 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:pg75339:38:3
# text = Say now to which of my two sons, Charlot and Lewis, I shall resign it.
1	Say	say	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
2	now	now	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	16	advmod	_	_
3	to	to	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
4	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	16	obl	_	_
5	of	of	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
6	my	my	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	8	nmod:poss	_	_
7	two	two	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	8	nummod	_	_
8	sons	son	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	16	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
10	Charlot	Charlot	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	8	appos	_	_
11	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	12	cc	_	_
12	Lewis	Lewis	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	10	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	8	punct	_	_
14	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	16	nsubj	_	_
15	shall	shall	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	16	aux	_	_
16	resign	resign	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	1	ccomp	_	_
17	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	16	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	1	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **say** *speech: assert* | imperative | you *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 2 | **resign** | shall | I | power |  |  | now | of my two sons; which *obl* | vn contribute-13.2 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent it=Theme to which=Recipient |

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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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