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title: The Duke answered, "Sire, if you should burn me by fire yet will I n… — Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of F… · tree and pragmatics
description: The Duke answered, "Sire, if you should burn me by fire yet will I not fail my children. Who acts: Duke, you. 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 and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France, Of What Befell At Montalban, sentence 88

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The Duke answered, "Sire, if you should burn me by fire yet will I not fail my children.

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**Who acts:** Duke, you · **What happens:** answer, burn, not fail · **To what, where:** Duke, children · **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 (Duke, you), 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:pg75339:11:88
# text = The Duke answered, "Sire, if you should burn me by fire yet will I not fail my children.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	Duke	Duke	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
3	answered	answer	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	6	punct	_	_
5	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	6	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	Sire	sire	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	vocative	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
8	if	if	SCONJ	IN	_	11	mark	_	_
9	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	11	nsubj	_	_
10	should	should	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	11	aux	_	_
11	burn	burn	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	3	conj	_	_
12	me	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	11	obj	_	_
13	by	by	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
14	fire	fire	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	obl	_	_
15	yet	yet	ADV	RB	_	19	advmod	_	_
16	will	will	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	19	aux	_	_
17	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	19	nsubj	_	_
18	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	19	advmod	_	_
19	fail	fail	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	11	advcl	_	_
20	my	my	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	21	nmod:poss	_	_
21	children	child	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	19	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **answer** *speech: assert* | past | the Duke |  |  |  |  | Sire *vocative* | vn reciprocate-112-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **burn** *a condition, not said to happen, in a quote* | should | you | the Duke *= duke* |  |  |  | by fire | vn light\_emission-43.1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent i=Theme |
| 3 | **not** **fail** *in a quote* | future | the Duke *= duke* | my children |  |  | yet |  | vn succeed-74-3-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent child=Eventuality |

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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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