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description: The King said to a certain knight whom he knew, "Go now to Reynaud and say that I am in sore straits." " Who acts: King. A sentence of «Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France» by Alfred John Church, Of the Craft of Mawgis, 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 Craft of Mawgis, sentence 11

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The King said to a certain knight whom he knew, "Go now to Reynaud and say that I am in sore straits." "

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**Who acts:** King · **What happens:** say, know, go, be · **To what, where:** certain knight, Reynaud, sore straits · **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 Craft of Mawgis. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (King), 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:pg75339:8:11
# text = The King said to a certain knight whom he knew, "Go now to Reynaud and say that I am in sore straits." "
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	King	King	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	_	7	case	_	_
5	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
6	certain	certain	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	amod	_	_
7	knight	knight	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	_
8	whom	whom	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	10	obj	_	_
9	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	10	nsubj	_	_
10	knew	know	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	7	acl:relcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
12	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	13	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	Go	go	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	3	ccomp	_	_
14	now	now	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	13	advmod	_	_
15	to	to	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
16	Reynaud	Reynaud	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	13	obl	_	_
17	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	18	cc	_	_
18	say	say	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	13	conj	_	_
19	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	24	mark	_	_
20	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	24	nsubj	_	_
21	am	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	24	cop	_	_
22	in	in	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	_
23	sore	sore	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	24	amod	_	_
24	straits	strait	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	18	ccomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	13	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	13	punct	_	_
27	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	3	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
```

## 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 |  | a certain knight |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V PP.recipient S-Quote»: agent=Agent to knight=Recipient clause=Topic |
| 2 | **know** | past | King | a certain knight |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer whom=Stimulus |
| 3 | **go** *in a quote* | infinitive |  |  |  | Reynaud | now |  | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme to reynaud=Initial\_Location |
| 4 | **say** *speech: assert* *in a quote* | infinitive |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent |
| 5 | **is** *in a quote* | present | the King *= king* |  |  | sore straits |  |  | 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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