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# Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France, How Peace Was Made, sentence 98

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If he have done aught amiss against you I will be his surety, and will answer for him that he shall make amends."

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**Who acts:** Duke, I · **What happens:** do, be, answer, make · **To what, where:** aught, surety, amends

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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 (Duke, 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:pg75339:12:98
# text = If he have done aught amiss against you I will be his surety, and will answer for him that he shall make amends."
1	If	if	SCONJ	IN	_	4	mark	_	_
2	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	4	nsubj	_	_
3	have	have	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	aux	_	_
4	done	do	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	17	advcl	_	_
5	aught	aught	PRON	NN	PronType=Ind	4	obj	_	_
6	amiss	amiss	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	xcomp	_	_
7	against	against	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
8	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Person=2|PronType=Prs	6	obl	_	_
9	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	13	nsubj	_	_
10	will	will	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	13	aux	_	_
11	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	13	cop	_	_
12	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	13	nmod:poss	_	_
13	surety	surety	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	parataxis	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	_
15	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	17	cc	_	_
16	will	will	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	17	aux	_	_
17	answer	answer	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
18	for	for	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
19	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	17	obl	_	_
20	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	23	mark	_	_
21	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	23	nsubj	_	_
22	shall	shall	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	23	aux	_	_
23	make	make	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	17	advcl	_	_
24	amends	amend	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	23	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	17	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	17	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **do** *a condition, not said to happen* | present · perfect | Duke | aught |  |  |  | amiss *property* | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent aught=Eventuality |
| 2 | **is a** | future | I | Duke's surety |  |  |  | Duke *nmod:poss* | tree rules |
| 3 | **answer** *speech: assert* | future |  |  |  |  |  | for Duke | vn reciprocate-112-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 4 | **make** | shall | Duke | amends |  |  |  |  | vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent amend=Product |

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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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