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description: He cried to Reynaud, "Let us yield ourselves to the King, seeing that neither Richard nor I can help you any more." " Who acts: Guichard, us. 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 p
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# Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France, Of the Treachery of King John, sentence 94

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He cried to Reynaud, "Let us yield ourselves to the King, seeing that neither Richard nor I can help you any more." "

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**Who acts:** Guichard, us · **What happens:** cry, let, yield, see, help · **To what, where:** Reynaud, us, ourselves, King, Richard · **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 (Guichard, us), 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:pg75339:7:94
# text = He cried to Reynaud, "Let us yield ourselves to the King, seeing that neither Richard nor I can help you any more." "
1	He	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	nsubj	_	_
2	cried	cry	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	to	to	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
4	Reynaud	Reynaud	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	7	punct	_	_
6	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	7	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	Let	let	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	2	conj	_	_
8	us	we	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs	7	obj	_	_
9	yield	yield	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	7	xcomp	_	_
10	ourselves	ourselves	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs|Reflex=Yes	9	obj	_	_
11	to	to	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
12	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
13	King	King	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	9	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
15	seeing	see	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	2	advcl	_	_
16	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	18	mark	_	_
17	neither	neither	DET	DT	PronType=Neg	18	det	_	_
18	Richard	Richard	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	15	obl	_	_
19	nor	nor	CCONJ	CC	Polarity=Neg	22	cc	_	_
20	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	22	nsubj	_	_
21	can	can	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	22	aux	_	_
22	help	help	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	2	conj	_	_
23	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Person=2|PronType=Prs	22	obj	_	_
24	any	any	ADV	RB	_	25	advmod	_	_
25	more	more	ADV	RBR	Degree=Cmp	22	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	22	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	22	punct	_	_
28	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	2	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **cry** *speech: express* | past | Guichard |  | Reynaud |  |  |  | vn manner\_speaking-37.3 «NP V PP.recipient»: agent=Agent to reynaud=Recipient |
| 2 | **let** *in a quote* | infinitive | Guichard *not said here* | us |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **yield** *in a quote* | infinitive | us *not said here* | ourselves | the King |  |  |  | vn future\_having-13.3 «NP V NP PP.goal»: agent=Agent ourselves=Theme to king=Goal |
| 4 | **see** *in a quote* | gerund | Guichard *not said here* | neither Richard |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer |
| 5 | **help** *in a quote* | can | Guichard |  | Reynaud |  |  |  | vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent you=Beneficiary |

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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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