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# Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France, Of the End of the False Duke Macaire, sentence 7

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Sir," answered the stranger, "I counsel you not to tarry; should the Duke know of your coming, you would hardly save your lives."

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**Who acts:** Sir, I, you, your · **What happens:** answer, counsel, not tarry, come, save · **To what, where:** stranger, Duke know, lives · **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, I, you, your), 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:pg75339:40:7
# text = Sir," answered the stranger, "I counsel you not to tarry; should the Duke know of your coming, you would hardly save your lives."
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	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	stranger	stranger	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
8	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	10	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	10	nsubj	_	_
10	counsel	counsel	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	conj	_	_
11	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	14	nsubj	_	_
12	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	14	advmod	_	_
13	to	to	PART	TO	_	14	mark	_	_
14	tarry	tarry	VERB	VB	Mood=Sub|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	10	ccomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	19	punct	_	_
16	should	should	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	19	aux	_	_
17	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	19	det	_	_
18	Duke	Duke	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	19	compound	_	_
19	know	know	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	parataxis	_	_
20	of	of	SCONJ	IN	_	22	mark	_	_
21	your	your	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	22	nsubj	_	_
22	coming	come	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	19	acl	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	27	punct	_	_
24	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	27	nsubj	_	_
25	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	27	aux	_	_
26	hardly	hardly	ADV	RB	_	27	advmod	_	_
27	save	save	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	4	parataxis	_	_
28	your	your	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	29	nmod:poss	_	_
29	lives	life	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	27	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
30	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	27	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
31	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	27	punct	_	_
```

## 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 | the stranger |  |  |  | the Duke know *parataxis* | tree rules |
| 2 | **counsel** *speech: other* | present | I |  |  |  |  |  | vn advise-37.9-1 «NP V how S\_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 3 | **not** **tarry** | to-infinitive | you |  |  |  |  |  | vn linger-53.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent |
| 4 | **come** | gerund | your | the Duke know *not said here* |  |  |  |  | vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location know=Theme |
| 5 | **save** | would | you | your lives |  |  |  | hardly *property* | vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent life=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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