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# Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France, Of the Craft of Mawgis, sentence 84

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But aloud he said, "I pray you, Sire, to give me some meat, for since yesterday I have neither eaten nor drunk."

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**Who acts:** Mawgis · **What happens:** say, pray, give, have, eat · **To what, where:** you, meat, Mawgis · **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 (Mawgis), 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:pg75339:8:84
# text = But aloud he said, "I pray you, Sire, to give me some meat, for since yesterday I have neither eaten nor drunk."
1	But	but	CCONJ	CC	_	4	cc	_	_
2	aloud	aloud	ADV	RB	_	4	advmod	_	_
3	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	4	nsubj	_	_
4	said	say	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	8	punct	_	_
6	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	8	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	8	nsubj	_	_
8	pray	pray	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	ccomp	_	_
9	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Person=2|PronType=Prs	8	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
11	Sire	Sire	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	8	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
13	to	to	PART	TO	_	14	mark	_	_
14	give	give	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	8	conj	_	_
15	me	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	14	iobj	_	_
16	some	some	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	17	det	_	_
17	meat	meat	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	23	punct	_	_
19	for	for	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
20	since	since	ADP	IN	_	19	fixed	_	_
21	yesterday	yesterday	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	obl	_	_
22	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	23	nsubj	_	_
23	have	have	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	14	conj	_	_
24	neither	neither	CCONJ	CC	Polarity=Neg	25	cc:preconj	_	_
25	eaten	eat	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	23	xcomp	_	_
26	nor	nor	CCONJ	CC	Polarity=Neg	27	cc	_	_
27	drunk	drunk	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	25	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
29	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **say** *speech: assert* | past | Mawgis |  |  |  |  | aloud *property* | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 2 | **pray** *in a quote* | present | Mawgis | you |  |  |  | Sire *obl* | tree rules |
| 3 | **give** *in a quote* | to-infinitive | Mawgis *not said here* | some meat | Mawgis |  |  |  | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent i=Recipient meat=Theme |
| 4 | **have** *in a quote* | present | Mawgis |  |  |  | yesterday |  | tree rules |
| 5 | **eat** *in a quote* | participle | Mawgis *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |

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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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