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title: But Gerames said, "'Tis safer lodging with the Provost." — Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of F… · tree and pragmatics
description: But Gerames said, "'Tis safer lodging with the Provost." Who acts: Gerames. A sentence of «Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France» by Alfred John Church, Of the End of the False Duke Macaire, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France, Of the End of the False Duke Macaire, sentence 49

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But Gerames said, "'Tis safer lodging with the Provost."

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**Who acts:** Gerames · **What happens:** say, lodge · **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 (Gerames), 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:pg75339:40:49
# text = But Gerames said, "'Tis safer lodging with the Provost."
1	But	but	CCONJ	CC	_	3	cc	_	_
2	Gerames	gerame	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	nsubj	_	_
3	said	say	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	8	punct	_	_
5	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	8	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	'	'	PUNCT	``	_	8	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	Tis	Tis	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	8	nsubj	_	_
8	safer	safe	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	3	parataxis	_	_
9	lodging	lodge	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	8	advcl	_	_
10	with	with	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
11	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
12	Provost	provost	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	3	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 | Gerames |  |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 2 | **lodge** *in a quote* | gerund | Gerames *not said here* |  |  |  |  | with the Provost | vn odge-46-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme with provost=Location |

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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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