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title: You must besiege," said the Duke Naymes, "his castle of Montalban." — Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of F… · tree and pragmatics
description: You must besiege," said the Duke Naymes, "his castle of Montalban." Who acts: You, Duke Naymes. A sentence of «Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France» by Alfred John Church, Of the Treachery of King John, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France, Of the Treachery of King John, sentence 3

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You must besiege," said the Duke Naymes, "his castle of Montalban."

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**Who acts:** You, Duke Naymes · **What happens:** besiege, say · **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, Of the Treachery of King John. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (You, Duke Naymes), 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:pg75339:7:3
# text = You must besiege," said the Duke Naymes, "his castle of Montalban."
1	You	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
2	must	must	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	3	aux	_	_
3	besiege	besiege	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	6	ccomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	3	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	3	punct	_	_
6	said	say	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
8	Duke	Duke	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	9	compound	_	_
9	Naymes	Naymes	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	6	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	6	punct	_	_
11	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	13	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	13	nmod:poss	_	_
13	castle	castle	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	ccomp	_	_
14	of	of	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
15	Montalban	Montalban	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	13	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	13	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	13	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **besiege** | must | You |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **say** *speech: assert* *in a quote* | past | the Duke Naymes |  |  |  |  | Naymes's castle of Montalban *ccomp* | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |

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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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