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# Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France, Of the End of the False Duke Macaire, sentence 82

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When he heard that he was the Provost, he said to him, "Now if you would serve me, give me the horn which I left in your keeping." "

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**Who acts:** Provost, Duke, horn · **What happens:** hear, be, say, serve, give, leave · **To what, where:** Provost, Duke, horn · **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 (Provost, Duke, horn), 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:pg75339:40:82
# text = When he heard that he was the Provost, he said to him, "Now if you would serve me, give me the horn which I left in your keeping." "
1	When	when	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	3	advmod	_	_
2	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
3	heard	hear	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	11	advcl	_	_
4	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	8	mark	_	_
5	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	8	nsubj	_	_
6	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	8	cop	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	Provost	provost	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	ccomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	3	punct	_	_
10	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	11	nsubj	_	_
11	said	say	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
12	to	to	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
13	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	11	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	20	punct	_	_
15	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	20	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	Now	now	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	20	advmod	_	_
17	if	if	SCONJ	IN	_	20	mark	_	_
18	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	20	nsubj	_	_
19	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	20	aux	_	_
20	serve	serve	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	11	ccomp	_	_
21	me	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	20	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	23	punct	_	_
23	give	give	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	20	conj	_	_
24	me	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	23	iobj	_	_
25	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	26	det	_	_
26	horn	horn	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	obj	_	_
27	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	29	nsubj	_	_
28	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	29	nsubj	_	_
29	left	leave	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	26	acl:relcl	_	_
30	in	in	SCONJ	IN	_	32	mark	_	_
31	your	your	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	32	nsubj	_	_
32	keeping	keep	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	29	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
33	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	20	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
34	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	20	punct	_	_
35	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	11	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **hear** | past | Provost |  |  |  |  |  | vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V PP.stimulus»: agent=Experiencer |
| 2 | **is a** | past | Provost | the Provost |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **say** *speech: assert* | past | Provost |  | Duke |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V PP.recipient S-Quote»: agent=Agent to he=Recipient clause=Topic |
| 4 | **serve** *a condition, not said to happen, in a quote* | would | Duke | Provost |  |  | now |  | vn masquerade-29.6-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent i=Attribute |
| 5 | **give** *in a quote* | infinitive | Duke *not said here* | the horn | Provost |  |  |  | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent i=Recipient horn=Theme |
| 6 | **leave** *in a quote* | past | the horn |  |  |  |  | I *nsubj* | vn escape-51.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 7 | **keep** *in a quote* | gerund | Duke |  |  |  |  |  | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: 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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