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title: Besides this I do not doubt that the kindness which my father showed… — Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of F… · tree and pragmatics
description: Besides this I do not doubt that the kindness which my father showed to the King will turn some day to his profit." Who acts: I, father, kindness, King. A sentence of «Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France» by Alfred John Church, Of What Befell At Montalban, with its dependency tree 
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# Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France, Of What Befell At Montalban, sentence 62

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Besides this I do not doubt that the kindness which my father showed to the King will turn some day to his profit."

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**Who acts:** I, father, kindness, King · **What happens:** not doubt, show, turn, profit · **To what, where:** kindness, King, profit

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This is a sentence of «Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France» by Alfred John Church, Of What Befell At Montalban. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (I, father, kindness, King), 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:pg75339:11:62
# text = Besides this I do not doubt that the kindness which my father showed to the King will turn some day to his profit."
1	Besides	besides	ADP	IN	_	2	case	_	_
2	this	this	PRON	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	6	obl	_	_
3	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	6	nsubj	_	_
4	do	do	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	6	aux	_	_
5	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	6	advmod	_	_
6	doubt	doubt	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
7	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	18	mark	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
9	kindness	kindness	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	nsubj	_	_
10	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	13	obj	_	_
11	my	my	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	12	nmod:poss	_	_
12	father	father	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	nsubj	_	_
13	showed	show	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	9	acl:relcl	_	_
14	to	to	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
15	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
16	King	King	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	13	obl	_	_
17	will	will	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	18	aux	_	_
18	turn	turn	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	6	advcl	_	_
19	some	some	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	20	det	_	_
20	day	day	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	obl:unmarked	_	_
21	to	to	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
22	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	23	nmod:poss	_	_
23	profit	profit	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	6	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **not** **doubt** | present · do-support | I |  |  |  |  | besides this | vn judgment-33.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **show** | past | my father | the kindness | the King |  |  |  | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent which=Topic to king=Recipient |
| 3 | **turn** | future | the kindness |  |  | King's profit | day |  | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V PP.trajectory»: agent=Theme to profit=Trajectory |
| 4 | **profit** |  | King |  |  |  |  |  | nom profit «possession intransitive»: poss=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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