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title: He said, therefore, to Huon, "Sir, I doubt whether you are even now… — Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of F… · tree and pragmatics
description: He said, therefore, to Huon, "Sir, I doubt whether you are even now in such a strait that you should blow the horn. Who acts: Provost, you. 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 
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# Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France, Of the End of the False Duke Macaire, sentence 85

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He said, therefore, to Huon, "Sir, I doubt whether you are even now in such a strait that you should blow the horn.

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**Who acts:** Provost, you · **What happens:** say, doubt, be, blow · **To what, where:** strait · **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, you), 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:pg75339:40:85
# text = He said, therefore, to Huon, "Sir, I doubt whether you are even now in such a strait that you should blow the horn.
1	He	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	nsubj	_	_
2	said	say	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	4	punct	_	_
4	therefore	therefore	ADV	RB	_	2	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	7	punct	_	_
6	to	to	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
7	Huon	Huon	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	parataxis	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
9	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	10	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	Sir	Sir	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	7	appos	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
12	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	13	nsubj	_	_
13	doubt	doubt	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	2	conj	_	_
14	whether	whether	SCONJ	IN	_	22	mark	_	_
15	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	22	nsubj	_	_
16	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	22	cop	_	_
17	even	even	ADV	RB	_	18	advmod	_	_
18	now	now	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	22	advmod	_	_
19	in	in	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
20	such	such	DET	PDT	PronType=Ind	22	det:predet	_	_
21	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	22	det	_	_
22	strait	strait	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	ccomp	_	_
23	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	26	obj	_	_
24	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	26	nsubj	_	_
25	should	should	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	26	aux	_	_
26	blow	blow	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	22	acl:relcl	_	_
27	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	28	det	_	_
28	horn	horn	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	26	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
29	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	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 | Provost |  |  |  |  | Huon *parataxis*; therefore *property* | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **doubt** *in a quote* | present | Provost |  |  |  |  |  | vn judgment-33.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **is** *in a quote* | present | you |  |  | such strait | now |  | tree rules |
| 4 | **blow** *in a quote* | should | you | such strait |  |  |  | the horn *obj* | vn build-26.1 «NP V NP.beneficiary NP PP»: agent=Agent that=Beneficiary horn=Product |

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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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