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title: To praise first, and, may be, to blame afterwards--that is contrary… — Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of F… · tree and pragmatics
description: To praise first, and, may be, to blame afterwards--that is contrary to sense." " Who acts: that. A sentence of «Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France» by Alfred John Church, How Ralph Entertained the King, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France, How Ralph Entertained the King, sentence 20

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To praise first, and, may be, to blame afterwards--that is contrary to sense." "

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**Who acts:** that · **What happens:** praise, be, sense

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This is a sentence of «Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France» by Alfred John Church, How Ralph Entertained the King. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (that), 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:pg75339:14:20
# text = To praise first, and, may be, to blame afterwards--that is contrary to sense." "
1	To	to	PART	TO	_	2	mark	_	_
2	praise	praise	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	11	advcl	_	_
3	first	first	ADV	RB	NumForm=Word|NumType=Ord	2	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
5	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	11	cc	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	5	punct	_	_
7	may	may	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	11	aux	_	_
8	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	11	cop	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
10	to	to	PART	TO	_	11	mark	_	_
11	blame	blame	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
12	afterwards	afterwards	ADV	RB	_	11	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	--	--	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	that	that	PRON	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	16	nsubj	_	_
15	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	16	cop	_	_
16	contrary	contrary	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	11	parataxis	_	_
17	to	to	PART	TO	_	18	mark	_	_
18	sense	sense	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	16	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	16	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	16	punct	_	_
21	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	11	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **praise** | to-infinitive |  |  |  |  |  | first *property* | vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **is** | may |  |  |  |  |  | afterwards, blame *property* | tree rules |
| 3 | **is** | present | that |  |  |  |  | contrary *property* | tree rules |
| 4 | **sense** | to-infinitive | that *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn see-30.1-1 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Experiencer |

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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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