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# Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France, How Peace Was Made, sentence 99

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To the Peers he said, "Show now to the King that if he suffer me thus to die, he shall do himself such dishonour as shall never be done away."

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**Who acts:** Duke · **What happens:** say, show, suffer, die, do, not do away · **To what, where:** Peers, King, Duke · **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 (Duke), 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:pg75339:12:99
# text = To the Peers he said, "Show now to the King that if he suffer me thus to die, he shall do himself such dishonour as shall never be done away."
1	To	to	ADP	IN	_	3	case	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	Peers	peer	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	obl	_	_
4	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	5	nsubj	_	_
5	said	say	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	8	punct	_	_
7	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	8	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	Show	show	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	5	ccomp	_	_
9	now	now	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	8	advmod	_	_
10	to	to	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
11	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
12	King	King	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	8	obl	_	_
13	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	16	mark	_	_
14	if	if	SCONJ	IN	_	16	mark	_	_
15	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	16	nsubj	_	_
16	suffer	suffer	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	8	advcl	_	_
17	me	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	16	obj	_	_
18	thus	thus	ADV	RB	_	16	advmod	_	_
19	to	to	PART	TO	_	20	mark	_	_
20	die	die	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	16	xcomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	24	punct	_	_
22	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	24	nsubj	_	_
23	shall	shall	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	24	aux	_	_
24	do	do	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	8	parataxis	_	_
25	himself	himself	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs|Reflex=Yes	24	obj	_	_
26	such	such	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	27	amod	_	_
27	dishonour	dishonour	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	obj	_	_
28	as	as	SCONJ	IN	_	32	mark	_	_
29	shall	shall	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	32	aux	_	_
30	never	never	ADV	RB	PronType=Neg	32	advmod	_	_
31	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	32	aux:pass	_	_
32	done	do	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	24	advcl	_	_
33	away	away	ADV	RB	_	32	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
34	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
35	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	5	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 | Duke |  | the Peers |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V PP.recipient S-Quote»: agent=Agent to peer=Recipient clause=Topic |
| 2 | **show** *in a quote* | infinitive |  |  | the King |  | now |  | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V PP.recipient how S»: agent=Agent to king=Recipient |
| 3 | **suffer** *a condition, not said to happen, in a quote* | infinitive | Duke | Duke |  |  |  | thus *property* | tree rules |
| 4 | **die** *in a quote* | to-infinitive | Duke *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn calibratable\_cos-45.6.1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute |
| 5 | **do** *in a quote* | shall | Duke | Duke |  |  |  | such dishonour *obj* | tree rules |
| 6 | **not** **do away** *in a quote* | shall · passive | Duke *not said here* |  |  |  |  | away *property* | vn act-114-1 «NP V» |

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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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