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title: The Duke said to Reynaud, "Man, know you anything of Reynaud, the so… — Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of F… · tree and pragmatics
description: The Duke said to Reynaud, "Man, know you anything of Reynaud, the son of Aymon?" Who acts: Duke. 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 of every clause.
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# Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France, The Coming of Roland, sentence 47

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The Duke said to Reynaud, "Man, know you anything of Reynaud, the son of Aymon?"

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**Who acts:** Duke · **What happens:** say, know · **To what, where:** Reynaud · **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 (Duke), 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:pg75339:6:47
# text = The Duke said to Reynaud, "Man, know you anything of Reynaud, the son of Aymon?"
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	Duke	Duke	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
3	said	say	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	to	to	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
5	Reynaud	Reynaud	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	8	punct	_	_
7	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	8	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	Man	man	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	appos	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
10	know	know	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	3	ccomp	_	_
11	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Person=2|PronType=Prs	10	obj	_	_
12	anything	anything	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Ind	10	obj	_	_
13	of	of	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
14	Reynaud	Reynaud	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	12	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	_
16	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
17	son	son	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	conj	_	_
18	of	of	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
19	Aymon	Aymon	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	17	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	10	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	10	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **say** *speech: ask* | past | the Duke |  | Reynaud |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V PP.recipient S-Quote»: agent=Agent to reynaud=Recipient clause=Topic |
| 2 | **know** *in a quote* | present |  | Reynaud |  |  |  | anything of Reynaud  the son of Aymon *obj* | 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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