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# Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France, How Huon Met With King Oberon, sentence 23

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This counsel did not please Huon, who said, "If I can gain so much time by only keeping my tongue from speech, I will surely do so." "

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**Who acts:** counsel, Huon · **What happens:** not please, say, gain, keep, do · **To what, where:** tongue, speech · **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 Huon Met With King Oberon. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (counsel, Huon), 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:pg75339:39:23
# text = This counsel did not please Huon, who said, "If I can gain so much time by only keeping my tongue from speech, I will surely do so." "
1	This	this	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	2	det	_	_
2	counsel	counsel	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	_
3	did	do	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	aux	_	_
4	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	5	advmod	_	_
5	please	please	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
6	Huon	Huon	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	9	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	9	punct	_	_
8	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	9	nsubj	_	_
9	said	say	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	ccomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
11	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	15	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	If	if	SCONJ	IN	_	15	mark	_	_
13	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	15	nsubj	_	_
14	can	can	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	15	aux	_	_
15	gain	gain	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	9	ccomp	_	_
16	so	so	ADV	RB	_	17	advmod	_	_
17	much	much	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	18	amod	_	_
18	time	time	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	obl:unmarked	_	_
19	by	by	SCONJ	IN	_	21	mark	_	_
20	only	only	ADV	RB	_	21	advmod	_	_
21	keeping	keep	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	15	advcl	_	_
22	my	my	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	23	nmod:poss	_	_
23	tongue	tongue	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	obj	_	_
24	from	from	ADP	IN	_	25	case	_	_
25	speech	speech	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	30	punct	_	_
27	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	30	nsubj	_	_
28	will	will	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	30	aux	_	_
29	surely	surely	ADV	RB	_	30	advmod	_	_
30	do	do	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	5	parataxis	_	_
31	so	so	ADV	RB	_	30	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
32	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	30	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
33	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	30	punct	_	_
34	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	5	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **not** **please** | past · do-support | this counsel |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **say** *speech: assert* | past | Huon |  |  |  |  | who *nsubj* | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 3 | **gain** *a condition, not said to happen, in a quote* | can | Huon |  |  |  | time |  | vn calibratable\_cos-45.6.1-1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute |
| 4 | **keep** *in a quote* | gerund | Huon *not said here* | my tongue |  | speech |  |  | vn forbid-64.4 «NP V NP PP.theme»: agent=Causer tongue=Beneficiary from speech=Eventuality |
| 5 | **do** *in a quote* | future | Huon |  |  |  |  | surely *property* | 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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