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title: Mawgis answered, "My name is Sousser, and I come from Peron, and thi… — Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of F… · tree and pragmatics
description: Mawgis answered, "My name is Sousser, and I come from Peron, and this is my son, but he speaks no French." Who acts: Mawgis, name, this, My. A sentence of «Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France» by Alfred John Church, The Coming of Roland, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics 
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# Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France, The Coming of Roland, sentence 46

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Mawgis answered, "My name is Sousser, and I come from Peron, and this is my son, but he speaks no French."

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**Who acts:** Mawgis, name, this, My · **What happens:** answer, be, come, speak, name · **To what, where:** Sousser, Peron, son, French · **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, The Coming of Roland. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Mawgis, name, this, My), 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:pg75339:6:46
# text = Mawgis answered, "My name is Sousser, and I come from Peron, and this is my son, but he speaks no French."
1	Mawgis	Mawgis	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	nsubj	_	_
2	answered	answer	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	8	punct	_	_
4	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	8	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	My	my	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	6	nmod:poss	_	_
6	name	name	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	nsubj	_	_
7	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	8	cop	_	_
8	Sousser	Sousser	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
10	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	12	cc	_	_
11	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	12	nsubj	_	_
12	come	come	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	2	parataxis	_	_
13	from	from	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
14	Peron	Peron	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	12	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	20	punct	_	_
16	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	20	cc	_	_
17	this	this	PRON	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	20	nsubj	_	_
18	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	20	cop	_	_
19	my	my	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	20	nmod:poss	_	_
20	son	son	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	vocative	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	24	punct	_	_
22	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	24	cc	_	_
23	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	24	nsubj	_	_
24	speaks	speak	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	2	parataxis	_	_
25	no	no	DET	DT	PronType=Neg	26	det	_	_
26	French	French	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	24	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	24	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	24	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **answer** *speech: assert* | past | Mawgis |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **is a** *in a quote* | present | My name | Sousser |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **come** *in a quote* | present | Mawgis |  |  | Peron |  |  | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme from peron=Initial\_Location |
| 4 | **is a** *in a quote* | present | this | my son |  |  |  | my *nmod:poss* | tree rules |
| 5 | **speak** *speech: other* *in a quote* | present | Mawgis | no French |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 6 | **name** *in a quote* |  | My |  |  |  |  |  | nom name «communication transitive»: poss=agent |

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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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