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" **Who acts:** lords, Reynaud · **What happens:** be, say, take, not give, sight · **To what, where:** sight, brethren, surety, us, hands, walls · **Speech:** someone speaks here This is a sentence of «Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France» by Alfred John Church, How It Fared With the Brethren. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (lords, Reynaud), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. **Mova's own parse.** This tree may be wrong. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = book:pg75339:5:104 # text = When they were in sight of the walls, Reynaud said to his brethren, "We did ill to take no surety of our father, that he give us not into the King's hands." " 1 When when ADV WRB PronType=Int 3 advmod _ _ 2 they they PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 3 nsubj _ _ 3 were be VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 11 advcl _ _ 4 in in ADP IN _ 5 case _ _ 5 sight sight NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 obl _ _ 6 of of ADP IN _ 8 case _ _ 7 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 8 det _ _ 8 walls wall NOUN NNS Number=Plur 5 nmod _ SpaceAfter=No 9 , , PUNCT , _ 3 punct _ _ 10 Reynaud Reynaud PROPN NNP Number=Sing 11 nsubj _ _ 11 said say VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 12 to to ADP IN _ 14 case _ _ 13 his his PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 14 nmod:poss _ _ 14 brethren brethren NOUN NN Number=Sing 11 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 15 , , PUNCT , _ 18 punct _ _ 16 " " PUNCT `` _ 18 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 17 We we PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs 18 nsubj _ _ 18 did do AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 21 aux _ _ 19 ill ill ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 18 xcomp _ _ 20 to to PART TO _ 21 mark _ _ 21 take take VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 11 ccomp _ _ 22 no no DET DT PronType=Neg 23 det _ _ 23 surety surety NOUN NN Number=Sing 21 obj _ _ 24 of of ADP IN _ 26 case _ _ 25 our our PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 26 nmod:poss _ _ 26 father father NOUN NN Number=Sing 23 nmod _ SpaceAfter=No 27 , , PUNCT , _ 30 punct _ _ 28 that that SCONJ IN _ 30 mark _ _ 29 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 30 nsubj _ _ 30 give give VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 21 conj _ _ 31 us we PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs 30 iobj _ _ 32 not not PART RB Polarity=Neg 30 advmod _ _ 33 into into ADP IN _ 37 case _ _ 34 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 35 det _ _ 35 King King PROPN NNP Number=Sing 37 nmod:poss _ SpaceAfter=No 36 's 's PART POS _ 35 case _ _ 37 hands hand NOUN NNS Number=Plur 30 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 38 . . PUNCT . _ 21 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 39 " " PUNCT '' _ 21 punct _ _ 40 " " PUNCT '' _ 11 punct _ SpaceAfter=No ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **be** | past | lords *= lord* | | | sight of the walls | | | vn exist-47.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in sight=Location | | 2 | **say** *speech: assert* | past | Reynaud | | Reynaud's brethren | | | | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V PP.recipient S-Quote»: agent=Agent to brethren=Recipient clause=Topic | | 3 | **take** *in a quote* | past · do-support | | no surety of our father | | | | | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent surety=Theme | | 4 | **not** **give** *in a quote* | infinitive | Reynaud | | us | the King's hands | | | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent we=Theme | | 5 | **sight** | | | the walls | | | | | nom sight «cognition transitive»: of=patient | 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. **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. - ← previous: [sentence 103](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg75339/5/103/) - next →: [sentence 105](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg75339/5/105/) - ↑ back to [How It Fared With the Brethren](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg75339/5/)