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title: But the Duke Naymes said: "The man that has eaten is better prepared… — Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of F… · tree and pragmatics
description: But the Duke Naymes said: "The man that has eaten is better prepared for all things." " Who acts: Duke Naymes, man. A sentence of «Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France» by Alfred John Church, More Deeds 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, More Deeds of Mawgis, sentence 32

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But the Duke Naymes said: "The man that has eaten is better prepared for all things." "

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**Who acts:** Duke Naymes, man · **What happens:** say, eat, be · **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 (Duke Naymes, man), 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:pg75339:9:32
# text = But the Duke Naymes said: "The man that has eaten is better prepared for all things." "
1	But	but	CCONJ	CC	_	5	cc	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
3	Duke	Duke	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	compound	_	_
4	Naymes	Naymes	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	_
5	said	say	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	14	punct	_	_
7	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	14	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
9	man	man	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	nsubj	_	_
10	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	12	nsubj	_	_
11	has	have	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	12	aux	_	_
12	eaten	eat	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	9	acl:relcl	_	_
13	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	14	cop	_	_
14	better	good	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	5	parataxis	_	_
15	prepared	prepared	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	14	amod	_	_
16	for	for	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
17	all	all	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	18	det	_	_
18	things	thing	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	15	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	14	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	14	punct	_	_
21	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	5	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 Duke Naymes |  |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 2 | **eat** *in a quote* | present · perfect | the man |  |  |  |  |  | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **is** *in a quote* | present | the man |  |  |  |  | good *property* | 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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