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description: To these words Huon answered, that when he departed from France, he had resolved that he would refuse no adventure, how perilous soever it might be. " Who acts: Huon, Oberon. A sentence of «Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France» by Alfred John Church, Of the End of the False Duke Mac
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# Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France, Of the End of the False Duke Macaire, sentence 96

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To these words Huon answered, that when he departed from France, he had resolved that he would refuse no adventure, how perilous soever it might be. "

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**Who acts:** Huon, Oberon · **What happens:** answer, depart, resolve, refuse · **To what, where:** France, Oberon, adventure

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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 (Huon, Oberon), 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:pg75339:40:96
# text = To these words Huon answered, that when he departed from France, he had resolved that he would refuse no adventure, how perilous soever it might be. "
1	To	to	ADP	IN	_	3	case	_	_
2	these	this	DET	DT	Number=Plur|PronType=Dem	3	det	_	_
3	words	word	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	obl	_	_
4	Huon	Huon	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	_
5	answered	answer	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
7	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	10	mark	_	_
8	when	when	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	10	advmod	_	_
9	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	10	nsubj	_	_
10	departed	depart	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	conj	_	_
11	from	from	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
12	France	France	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	10	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
14	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	16	nsubj:pass	_	_
15	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	16	aux	_	_
16	resolved	resolve	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	5	conj	_	_
17	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	20	mark	_	_
18	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	20	nsubj	_	_
19	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	20	aux	_	_
20	refuse	refuse	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	16	advcl	_	_
21	no	no	DET	DT	PronType=Neg	22	det	_	_
22	adventure	adventure	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	25	punct	_	_
24	how	how	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	25	advmod	_	_
25	perilous	perilous	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	22	amod	_	_
26	soever	soever	ADV	RB	_	29	advmod	_	_
27	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	29	nsubj	_	_
28	might	might	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	29	aux	_	_
29	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	25	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
30	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
31	"	"	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 | **answer** *speech: assert* | past | Huon |  |  |  |  | to this words | vn subordinate-95.2.1 «NP V PP.co-agent»: agent=Agent to word=Co-Agent |
| 2 | **depart** | past | Oberon |  |  | France |  |  | vn escape-51.1-1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme from france=Initial\_Location |
| 3 | **resolve** | past · perfect · passive |  | Oberon |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 4 | **refuse** | would | Oberon | no adventure |  |  |  |  | vn reject-77.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent adventure=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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