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title: So be it," said the King; "but where shall the fellow sit?" " — Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of F… · tree and pragmatics
description: So be it," said the King; "but where shall the fellow sit?" " Who acts: thing. 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 33

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So be it," said the King; "but where shall the fellow sit?" "

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**Who acts:** thing · **What happens:** be, say · **To what, where:** thing · **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 (thing), 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:pg75339:9:33
# text = So be it," said the King; "but where shall the fellow sit?" "
1	So	so	ADV	RB	_	6	advmod	_	_
2	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	3	cop	_	_
3	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	6	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	3	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	3	punct	_	_
6	said	say	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	King	King	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	6	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	6	punct	_	_
10	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	16	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	16	cc	_	_
12	where	where	ADV	WRB	PronType=Rel	16	advmod	_	_
13	shall	shall	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	16	aux	_	_
14	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
15	fellow	fellow	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	16	amod	_	_
16	sit	sit	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	parataxis	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	16	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	16	punct	_	_
19	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	16	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** | infinitive |  | thing |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **say** *speech: assert* *in a quote* | past | thing |  |  |  |  | the King *nsubj*; the fellow sit *parataxis* | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |

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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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