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# Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France, Of What Befell At Montalban, sentence 80

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Now, therefore, light off your horse and go into the tent, and take whatsoever you can find, nor shall any man say you nay; but for my oath's sake, I may not give you aught."

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**Who acts:** you, man, I · **What happens:** light off, go, take, find, say, not give · **To what, where:** horse, tent, whatsoever, you, aught · **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 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 (you, man, I), 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:pg75339:11:80
# text = Now, therefore, light off your horse and go into the tent, and take whatsoever you can find, nor shall any man say you nay; but for my oath's sake, I may not give you aught."
1	Now	now	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	5	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	1	punct	_	_
3	therefore	therefore	ADV	RB	_	5	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	3	punct	_	_
5	light	light	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
6	off	off	ADP	RP	_	5	compound:prt	_	_
7	your	your	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	8	nmod:poss	_	_
8	horse	horse	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obj	_	_
9	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	10	cc	_	_
10	go	go	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	5	conj	_	_
11	into	into	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
12	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
13	tent	tent	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
15	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	16	cc	_	_
16	take	take	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	5	parataxis	_	_
17	whatsoever	whatsoever	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	20	obj	_	_
18	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	20	nsubj	_	_
19	can	can	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	20	aux	_	_
20	find	find	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	16	ccomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	26	punct	_	_
22	nor	nor	CCONJ	CC	Polarity=Neg	26	cc	_	_
23	shall	shall	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	26	aux	_	_
24	any	any	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	25	det	_	_
25	man	man	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	26	nsubj	_	_
26	say	say	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	16	conj	_	_
27	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Person=2|PronType=Prs	26	obj	_	_
28	nay	nay	INTJ	UH	_	26	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
29	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	40	punct	_	_
30	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	40	cc	_	_
31	for	for	ADP	IN	_	35	case	_	_
32	my	my	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	33	nmod:poss	_	_
33	oath	oath	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	35	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
34	's	's	PART	POS	_	33	case	_	_
35	sake	sake	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	40	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
36	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	35	punct	_	_
37	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	40	nsubj	_	_
38	may	may	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	40	aux	_	_
39	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	40	advmod	_	_
40	give	give	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	5	conj	_	_
41	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Person=2|PronType=Prs	40	iobj	_	_
42	aught	aught	PRON	NN	PronType=Ind	40	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
43	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
44	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **light off** | imperative | you *not said here* | your horse |  |  | now | therefore *property* | vn preparing-26.3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent horse=Product |
| 2 | **go** | infinitive | you *not said here* |  |  | the tent |  |  | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme into tent=Initial\_Location |
| 3 | **take** | infinitive |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn require-103 «NP V for NP S\_INF»: agent=Theme clause=Precondition |
| 4 | **find** | can | you | whatsoever |  |  |  |  | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent whatsoever=Topic |
| 5 | **say** *speech: assert* | shall | any man | you |  |  |  |  | vn pronounce-29.3.1 «NP V NP NP»: agent=Agent you=Theme nay=Manner |
| 6 | **not** **give** | may | I | aught | you |  |  | for my oath's sake | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP NP PP.asset»: agent=Agent you=Recipient aught=Theme for sake=Asset |

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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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