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title: Nay," said Huon, "be content, Gerames has done all this to deliver u… — Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of F… · tree and pragmatics
description: Nay," said Huon, "be content, Gerames has done all this to deliver us, as you will soon know for a certainty." Who acts: Huon, Gerames, you. A sentence of «Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France» by Alfred John Church, How Huon Returned, His Errand Fulfilled, with its dependency tree 
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# Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France, How Huon Returned, His Errand Fulfilled, sentence 41

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Nay," said Huon, "be content, Gerames has done all this to deliver us, as you will soon know for a certainty."

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**Who acts:** Huon, Gerames, you · **What happens:** say, be, do, deliver, know · **To what, where:** this, us · **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, How Huon Returned, His Errand Fulfilled. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Huon, Gerames, 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:pg75339:42:41
# text = Nay," said Huon, "be content, Gerames has done all this to deliver us, as you will soon know for a certainty."
1	Nay	nay	INTJ	UH	_	4	discourse	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	1	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	1	punct	_	_
4	said	say	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	Huon	Huon	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	9	punct	_	_
7	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	9	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	9	cop	_	_
9	content	content	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	parataxis	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
11	Gerames	Gerames	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	13	nsubj	_	_
12	has	have	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	13	aux	_	_
13	done	do	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	9	conj	_	_
14	all	all	DET	PDT	PronType=Tot	15	det:predet	_	_
15	this	this	PRON	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	13	obj	_	_
16	to	to	PART	TO	_	17	mark	_	_
17	deliver	deliver	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	13	advcl	_	_
18	us	we	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs	17	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	24	punct	_	_
20	as	as	SCONJ	IN	_	24	mark	_	_
21	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	24	nsubj	_	_
22	will	will	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	24	aux	_	_
23	soon	soon	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	24	advmod	_	_
24	know	know	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	17	conj	_	_
25	for	for	ADP	IN	_	27	case	_	_
26	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	27	det	_	_
27	certainty	certainty	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
29	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **say** *speech: assert* *in a quote* | past | Huon |  |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 2 | **is** | infinitive |  |  |  |  |  | content *property* | tree rules |
| 3 | **do** | present · perfect | Gerames | this |  |  |  |  | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent this=Eventuality |
| 4 | **deliver** | to-infinitive | Gerames *not said here* | us |  |  |  |  | vn birth-28.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent we=Patient |
| 5 | **know** | future | you |  |  |  |  | for a certainty; soon *property* | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer |

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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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