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title: Said the King to Aymon, "You and your sons are very dear to me. — Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of F… · tree and pragmatics
description: Said the King to Aymon, "You and your sons are very dear to me. Who acts: King, Aymon. A sentence of «Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France» by Alfred John Church, How It Fared With the Brethren, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France, How It Fared With the Brethren, sentence 2

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Said the King to Aymon, "You and your sons are very dear to me.

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**Who acts:** King, Aymon · **What happens:** say, be · **To what, where:** Aymon, King · **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 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 (King, Aymon), 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:pg75339:5:2
# text = Said the King to Aymon, "You and your sons are very dear to me.
1	Said	say	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	King	King	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	1	nsubj	_	_
4	to	to	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
5	Aymon	Aymon	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	1	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
7	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	14	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	You	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	14	nsubj	_	_
9	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	11	cc	_	_
10	your	your	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	11	nmod:poss	_	_
11	sons	son	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	8	conj	_	_
12	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	14	cop	_	_
13	very	very	ADV	RB	_	14	advmod	_	_
14	dear	dear	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	1	parataxis	_	_
15	to	to	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
16	me	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	14	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	1	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 | the King |  | Aymon |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V PP.recipient S-Quote»: agent=Agent to aymon=Recipient clause=Topic |
| 2 | **is** *in a quote* | present | Aymon |  | the King *= king* |  |  | dear *property* | tree rules |

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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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