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description: And when they had supped, Huon serving them all the time full courteously, he took the cup and showed it to the Duke, saying, "Is not this cup empty?" "' Who acts: knights, Huon, Duke, cup. A sentence of «Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France» by Alfred John Church, Of the End of the
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# Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France, Of the End of the False Duke Macaire, sentence 39

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And when they had supped, Huon serving them all the time full courteously, he took the cup and showed it to the Duke, saying, "Is not this cup empty?" "'

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**Who acts:** knights, Huon, Duke, cup · **What happens:** sup, serve, take, show, say, not be · **To what, where:** Huon, knights, cup, Duke · **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 (knights, Huon, Duke, cup), 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:pg75339:40:39
# text = And when they had supped, Huon serving them all the time full courteously, he took the cup and showed it to the Duke, saying, "Is not this cup empty?" "'
1	And	and	CCONJ	CC	_	5	cc	_	_
2	when	when	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	5	advmod	_	_
3	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	5	nsubj	_	_
4	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	aux	_	_
5	supped	sup	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	7	punct	_	_
7	Huon	Huon	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	5	obj	_	_
8	serving	serve	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	7	acl	_	_
9	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	8	obj	_	_
10	all	all	DET	PDT	PronType=Tot	12	det:predet	_	_
11	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
12	time	time	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obl	_	_
13	full	full	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	12	amod	_	_
14	courteously	courteously	ADV	RB	_	13	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	_
16	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	17	nsubj	_	_
17	took	take	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	parataxis	_	_
18	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	19	det	_	_
19	cup	cup	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	obj	_	_
20	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	21	cc	_	_
21	showed	show	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	17	conj	_	_
22	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	21	obj	_	_
23	to	to	ADP	IN	_	25	case	_	_
24	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	25	det	_	_
25	Duke	Duke	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	21	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	27	punct	_	_
27	saying	say	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	21	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	34	punct	_	_
29	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	34	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
30	Is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	34	cop	_	_
31	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	34	advmod	_	_
32	this	this	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	33	det	_	_
33	cup	cup	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	34	nsubj	_	_
34	empty	empty	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	27	ccomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
35	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
36	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	5	punct	_	_
37	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	5	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
38	'	'	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 | **sup** | past · perfect | knights *= knight* | Huon |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **serve** | gerund | Huon *not said here* | knights *= knight* |  |  | time |  | vn masquerade-29.6-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Attribute |
| 3 | **take** | past | Duke | the cup |  |  |  |  | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent cup=Theme |
| 4 | **show** | past | Duke *not said here* | cup | the Duke |  |  |  | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent it=Topic to duke=Recipient |
| 5 | **say** *speech: ask* | gerund | Duke *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent |
| 6 | **not** **is** *in a quote* | present | this cup |  |  |  |  | empty *property* | tree rules |

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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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