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title: When Amaury saw this, he cried, "Huon, you cannot hold out longer; i… — Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of F… · tree and pragmatics
description: When Amaury saw this, he cried, "Huon, you cannot hold out longer; it were well for you to confess your ill-doing." Who acts: Amaury, horse, Huon, it. 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 depend
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# Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France, How King Charles Sent Huon on an Errand, sentence 96

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When Amaury saw this, he cried, "Huon, you cannot hold out longer; it were well for you to confess your ill-doing."

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**Who acts:** Amaury, horse, Huon, it · **What happens:** see, cry, not hold out, be, do · **To what, where:** this · **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 (Amaury, horse, Huon, it), 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:pg75339:38:96
# text = When Amaury saw this, he cried, "Huon, you cannot hold out longer; it were well for you to confess your ill-doing."
1	When	when	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	3	advmod	_	_
2	Amaury	Amaury	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
3	saw	see	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	7	advcl	_	_
4	this	this	PRON	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	3	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	3	punct	_	_
6	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	7	nsubj	_	_
7	cried	cry	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
9	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	10	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	Huon	Huon	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	15	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
12	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	15	nsubj	_	_
13	can	can	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	15	aux	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	15	advmod	_	_
15	hold	hold	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	7	ccomp	_	_
16	out	out	ADV	RB	_	15	advmod	_	_
17	longer	long	ADV	RBR	Degree=Cmp	15	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	25	punct	_	_
19	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	25	nsubj	_	_
20	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	25	cop	_	_
21	well	well	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	25	advmod	_	_
22	for	for	SCONJ	IN	_	25	mark	_	_
23	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	25	nsubj	_	_
24	to	to	PART	TO	_	25	mark	_	_
25	confess	confess	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	7	parataxis	_	_
26	your	your	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	29	nmod:poss	_	_
27	ill	ill	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	29	amod	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	27	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
29	doing	do	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	25	ccomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
30	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	7	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
31	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	7	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **see** | past | Amaury | this |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer this=Stimulus |
| 2 | **cry** *speech: express* | past | horse |  |  |  |  |  | vn manner\_speaking-37.3 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 3 | **not** **hold out** *in a quote* | can | Huon |  |  |  |  | you *nsubj*; long, out *property* | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 4 | **is** *in a quote* | past | it |  |  |  |  | you *nsubj*; confess, well *property* | tree rules |
| 5 | **do** *in a quote* | gerund |  |  |  |  |  | your *nmod:poss* | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |

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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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