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title: Sir," answered Huon, "I am bound on a journey to the Red Sea; these… — Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of F… · tree and pragmatics
description: Sir," answered Huon, "I am bound on a journey to the Red Sea; these poor folk I have thus entertained that they may pray for me that I may come back safely." " Who acts: Sir, Huon, I. A sentence of «Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France» by Alfred John Church, Of the End of the False
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# Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France, Of the End of the False Duke Macaire, sentence 34

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Sir," answered Huon, "I am bound on a journey to the Red Sea; these poor folk I have thus entertained that they may pray for me that I may come back safely." "

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**Who acts:** Sir, Huon, I · **What happens:** answer, bind, entertain, pray, come back · **To what, where:** Huon, I, journey, poor folk · **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, Of the End of the False Duke Macaire. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Sir, Huon, 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:pg75339:40:34
# text = Sir," answered Huon, "I am bound on a journey to the Red Sea; these poor folk I have thus entertained that they may pray for me that I may come back safely." "
1	Sir	sir	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	1	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	1	punct	_	_
4	answered	answer	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	Huon	Huon	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
7	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	10	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	10	nsubj	_	_
9	am	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	10	aux:pass	_	_
10	bound	bind	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	4	ccomp	_	_
11	on	on	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
12	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
13	journey	journey	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obl	_	_
14	to	to	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
15	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
16	Red	Red	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	17	compound	_	_
17	Sea	Sea	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	13	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	25	punct	_	_
19	these	this	DET	DT	Number=Plur|PronType=Dem	21	det	_	_
20	poor	poor	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	21	amod	_	_
21	folk	folk	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	nsubj:pass	_	_
22	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	25	nsubj	_	_
23	have	have	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	25	aux	_	_
24	thus	thus	ADV	RB	_	25	advmod	_	_
25	entertained	entertain	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	4	ccomp	_	_
26	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	29	mark	_	_
27	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	29	nsubj	_	_
28	may	may	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	29	aux	_	_
29	pray	pray	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	25	advcl	_	_
30	for	for	ADP	IN	_	31	case	_	_
31	me	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	29	obl	_	_
32	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	35	mark	_	_
33	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	35	nsubj	_	_
34	may	may	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	35	aux	_	_
35	come	come	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	29	advcl	_	_
36	back	back	ADV	RB	_	35	advmod	_	_
37	safely	safely	ADV	RB	_	35	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
38	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	25	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
39	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	25	punct	_	_
40	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	4	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **answer** *speech: assert* *in a quote* | past | Sir |  | Huon |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **bind** | present · passive |  | I |  | a journey to the Red Sea |  |  | vn shake-22.3-2-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient |
| 3 | **entertain** | present · perfect · passive |  | this poor folk |  |  |  | I *nsubj*; thus *property* | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: subject=Experiencer |
| 4 | **pray** | may | Huon |  |  |  |  | for me | vn long-32.2 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Pivot for i=Theme |
| 5 | **come back** | may | I |  |  |  |  | safely *property* | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |

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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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