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# Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France, How King Charles Sent Huon on an Errand, sentence 68

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The King said to the Duke Naymes, "Go now and see what this outcry may mean."

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**Who acts:** King, outcry · **What happens:** say, go, see, mean · **To what, where:** Duke Naymes · **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 (King, outcry), 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:pg75339:38:68
# text = The King said to the Duke Naymes, "Go now and see what this outcry may mean."
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	King	King	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
3	said	say	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	to	to	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
6	Duke	Duke	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	7	compound	_	_
7	Naymes	Naymes	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
9	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	10	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	Go	go	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	3	ccomp	_	_
11	now	now	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	10	advmod	_	_
12	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	13	cc	_	_
13	see	see	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	10	conj	_	_
14	what	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	18	obj	_	_
15	this	this	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	16	det	_	_
16	outcry	outcry	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	nsubj	_	_
17	may	may	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	18	aux	_	_
18	mean	mean	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	13	ccomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	10	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	10	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **say** *speech: assert* | past | the King |  | the Duke Naymes |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V PP.recipient S-Quote»: agent=Agent to naymes=Recipient clause=Topic |
| 2 | **go** *in a quote* | infinitive |  |  |  |  | now |  | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 3 | **see** *in a quote* | infinitive |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V how S\_INF»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus |
| 4 | **mean** *in a quote* | may | this outcry |  |  |  |  | what *obj* | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent what=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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