---
title: Sire," answered Turpin, "to do so would be against my priest's duty." — Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of F… · tree and pragmatics
description: Sire," answered Turpin, "to do so would be against my priest's duty." Who acts: Sire. 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.
---

<!-- md -->
[Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg75339/8/119/)

<!-- crumbs -->
[home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [tales](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/) / [Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve…](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg75339/) / [Of the Craft of Mawgis](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg75339/8/) / 119

# Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France, Of the Craft of Mawgis, sentence 119

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
Sire," answered Turpin, "to do so would be against my priest's duty."

<!-- .vintro -->
**Who acts:** Sire · **What happens:** answer, do, be · **To what, where:** Turpin · **Speech:** someone speaks here

<!-- .vabout -->
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 (Sire), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

<!-- .note-en -->
**Mova's own parse.** This tree may be wrong.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = book:pg75339:8:119
# text = Sire," answered Turpin, "to do so would be against my priest's duty."
1	Sire	sire	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	1	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	1	punct	_	_
4	answered	answer	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	Turpin	Turpin	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	9	punct	_	_
7	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	9	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	to	to	PART	TO	_	9	mark	_	_
9	do	do	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	4	ccomp	_	_
10	so	so	ADV	RB	_	17	advmod	_	_
11	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	17	aux	_	_
12	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	17	cop	_	_
13	against	against	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
14	my	my	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	15	nmod:poss	_	_
15	priest	priest	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	's	's	PART	POS	_	15	case	_	_
17	duty	duty	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	9	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	9	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

<!-- .fr -->
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **answer** *speech: assert* *in a quote* | past | Sire |  | Turpin |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **do** | to-infinitive |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **is** | would |  |  |  |  |  | against my priest's duty; my priest *nmod:poss* | tree rules |

<!-- .note -->
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.

<!-- div src -->

**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.

<!-- /div -->

<!-- pn -->
- ← previous: [sentence 118](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg75339/8/118/)
- next →: [sentence 120](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg75339/8/120/)
- ↑ back to [Of the Craft of Mawgis](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg75339/8/)