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title: Then Mawgis looking round, saw the twelve Peers, and he said to Oliv… — Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of F… · tree and pragmatics
description: Then Mawgis looking round, saw the twelve Peers, and he said to Oliver, "Sir, when I yielded myself to you, you promised to be surety for me to the King." Who acts: Mawgis, Oliver. A sentence of «Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France» by Alfred John Church, More Deeds of Mawgis, with
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# Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France, More Deeds of Mawgis, sentence 27

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Then Mawgis looking round, saw the twelve Peers, and he said to Oliver, "Sir, when I yielded myself to you, you promised to be surety for me to the King."

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**Who acts:** Mawgis, Oliver · **What happens:** look round, see, say, yield, promise, be · **To what, where:** twelve Peers, Oliver, Mawgis, King, surety · **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, More Deeds 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, Oliver), 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:pg75339:9:27
# text = Then Mawgis looking round, saw the twelve Peers, and he said to Oliver, "Sir, when I yielded myself to you, you promised to be surety for me to the King."
1	Then	then	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	3	advmod	_	_
2	Mawgis	Mawgis	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
3	looking	look	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	6	advcl	_	_
4	round	round	ADV	RB	_	3	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	3	punct	_	_
6	saw	see	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
8	twelve	twelve	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	9	nummod	_	_
9	Peers	Peer	PROPN	NNPS	Number=Plur	6	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
11	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	13	cc	_	_
12	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	13	nsubj	_	_
13	said	say	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	6	parataxis	_	_
14	to	to	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
15	Oliver	Oliver	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	13	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	_
17	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	18	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	Sir	Sir	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	13	ccomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	22	punct	_	_
20	when	when	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	22	advmod	_	_
21	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	22	nsubj	_	_
22	yielded	yield	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	13	conj	_	_
23	myself	myself	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs|Reflex=Yes	22	obj	_	_
24	to	to	ADP	IN	_	25	case	_	_
25	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Person=2|PronType=Prs	22	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	28	punct	_	_
27	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	28	nsubj	_	_
28	promised	promise	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	6	conj	_	_
29	to	to	PART	TO	_	31	mark	_	_
30	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	31	cop	_	_
31	surety	surety	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	28	xcomp	_	_
32	for	for	ADP	IN	_	33	case	_	_
33	me	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	28	obl	_	_
34	to	to	ADP	IN	_	36	case	_	_
35	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	36	det	_	_
36	King	King	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	28	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
37	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
38	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	6	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **look round** | gerund | Mawgis |  |  |  | then | round *property* | vn stimulus\_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus |
| 2 | **see** | past |  | the twelve Peers |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer peer=Stimulus |
| 3 | **say** *speech: assert* | past | Mawgis |  | Oliver |  |  | Sir *ccomp* | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V PP.recipient S-Quote»: agent=Agent to oliver=Recipient |
| 4 | **yield** *in a quote* | past | Mawgis | Mawgis | Oliver |  |  |  | vn future\_having-13.3 «NP V NP PP.goal»: agent=Agent myself=Theme to you=Goal |
| 5 | **promise** *speech: promise* *in a quote* | past | Oliver |  | the King |  |  | for Mawgis | vn promise-37.13 «NP V PP.recipient that S»: agent=Agent to king=Recipient |
| 6 | **is a** *not said to happen, in a quote* | to-infinitive | Oliver *not said here* | surety |  |  |  |  | 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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