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# Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France, How Peace Was Made, sentence 70

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And Roland said, "Sire, take it not ill, if I tell you that for your pride you will cause the Duke Richard to die.

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**Who acts:** Roland, Sire, pride, your · **What happens:** say, take, tell, cause, die, pride · **To what, where:** more, you, Duke Richard · **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, How Peace Was Made. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Roland, Sire, pride, your), 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:pg75339:12:70
# text = And Roland said, "Sire, take it not ill, if I tell you that for your pride you will cause the Duke Richard to die.
1	And	and	CCONJ	CC	_	3	cc	_	_
2	Roland	Roland	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
3	said	say	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	8	punct	_	_
5	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	6	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	Sire	sire	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	6	punct	_	_
8	take	take	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	3	ccomp	_	_
9	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	8	obj	_	_
10	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	11	advmod	_	_
11	ill	ill	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
13	if	if	SCONJ	IN	_	15	mark	_	_
14	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	15	nsubj	_	_
15	tell	tell	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	8	parataxis	_	_
16	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Person=2|PronType=Prs	15	iobj	_	_
17	that	that	PRON	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	16	nmod:unmarked	_	_
18	for	for	SCONJ	IN	_	23	mark	_	_
19	your	your	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	20	nmod:poss	_	_
20	pride	pride	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	nsubj	_	_
21	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	23	nsubj	_	_
22	will	will	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	23	aux	_	_
23	cause	cause	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	15	advcl	_	_
24	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	26	det	_	_
25	Duke	Duke	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	26	compound	_	_
26	Richard	Richard	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	23	obj	_	_
27	to	to	PART	TO	_	28	mark	_	_
28	die	die	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	23	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
29	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **say** *speech: assert* | past | Roland |  |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 2 | **take** *in a quote* | infinitive | Sire | more |  |  |  |  | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme |
| 3 | **tell** *speech: assert* *a condition, not said to happen, in a quote* | present | Roland |  | you |  |  |  | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent you=Recipient |
| 4 | **cause** *in a quote* | future | your pride | the Duke Richard |  |  |  | you *nsubj* | vn engender-27.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Precondition richard=Patient |
| 5 | **die** *in a quote* | to-infinitive | your pride *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn calibratable\_cos-45.6.1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute |
| 6 | **pride** *in a quote* |  | your |  |  |  |  |  | nom pride «feeling transitive»: 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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