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title: If this be as you say, then Oliver shall fight with this pagan, and… — Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of F… · tree and pragmatics
description: If this be as you say, then Oliver shall fight with this pagan, and if he fight, then he can hardly escape death. Who acts: you, Oliver, Ganelon. A sentence of «Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France» by Alfred John Church, How Fierabras Defied King Charles, with its dependency tree a
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# Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France, How Fierabras Defied King Charles, sentence 66

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If this be as you say, then Oliver shall fight with this pagan, and if he fight, then he can hardly escape death.

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**Who acts:** you, Oliver, Ganelon · **What happens:** be, say, fight, escape · **To what, where:** this, death · **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 Fierabras Defied King Charles. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (you, Oliver, Ganelon), 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:pg75339:16:66
# text = If this be as you say, then Oliver shall fight with this pagan, and if he fight, then he can hardly escape death.
1	If	if	SCONJ	IN	_	2	mark	_	_
2	this	this	PRON	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	0	root	_	_
3	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	2	cop	_	_
4	as	as	SCONJ	IN	_	6	mark	_	_
5	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	6	nsubj	_	_
6	say	say	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	3	ccomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
8	then	then	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	11	advmod	_	_
9	Oliver	Oliver	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	11	nsubj	_	_
10	shall	shall	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	11	aux	_	_
11	fight	fight	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	6	ccomp	_	_
12	with	with	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
13	this	this	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	14	det	_	_
14	pagan	pagan	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	25	punct	_	_
16	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	25	cc	_	_
17	if	if	SCONJ	IN	_	19	mark	_	_
18	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	19	nsubj	_	_
19	fight	fight	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	25	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	19	punct	_	_
21	then	then	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	25	advmod	_	_
22	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	25	nsubj	_	_
23	can	can	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	25	aux	_	_
24	hardly	hardly	ADV	RB	_	25	advmod	_	_
25	escape	escape	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	11	conj	_	_
26	death	death	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** | infinitive |  | this |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **say** *speech: assert* | present | you |  |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 3 | **fight** | shall | Oliver |  |  |  | then | with this pagan | vn battle-36.4-1 «NP V PP.co-agent»: agent=Agent with pagan=Co-Agent |
| 4 | **fight** *a condition, not said to happen* | present | Ganelon |  |  |  |  |  | vn battle-36.4-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 5 | **escape** | can | Ganelon | death |  |  | then | hardly *property* | vn escape-51.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme death=Initial\_Location |

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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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