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title: Nay, and if you will send out against me six or seven of your strong… — Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of F… · tree and pragmatics
description: Nay, and if you will send out against me six or seven of your strongest knights, I swear by my god Mahomet that I will not refuse to fight with them all. Who acts: you, I. A sentence of «Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France» by Alfred John Church, How Fierabras Defied King Charles, 
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# Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France, How Fierabras Defied King Charles, sentence 8

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Nay, and if you will send out against me six or seven of your strongest knights, I swear by my god Mahomet that I will not refuse to fight with them all.

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**Who acts:** you, I · **What happens:** send out, swear, not refuse, fight · **To what, where:** six, god Mahomet

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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, 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:pg75339:16:8
# text = Nay, and if you will send out against me six or seven of your strongest knights, I swear by my god Mahomet that I will not refuse to fight with them all.
1	Nay	nay	INTJ	UH	_	7	discourse	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	1	punct	_	_
3	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	7	cc	_	_
4	if	if	SCONJ	IN	_	7	mark	_	_
5	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	7	nsubj	_	_
6	will	will	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	7	aux	_	_
7	send	send	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
8	out	out	ADP	RP	_	7	compound:prt	_	_
9	against	against	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
10	me	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	7	obl	_	_
11	six	six	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	20	obl	_	_
12	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	13	cc	_	_
13	seven	seven	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	11	conj	_	_
14	of	of	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
15	your	your	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	17	nmod:poss	_	_
16	strongest	strong	ADJ	JJS	Degree=Sup	17	amod	_	_
17	knights	knight	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	13	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	20	punct	_	_
19	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	20	nsubj	_	_
20	swear	swear	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	7	parataxis	_	_
21	by	by	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	_
22	my	my	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	24	nmod:poss	_	_
23	god	god	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	compound	_	_
24	Mahomet	mahomet	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	obl	_	_
25	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	29	obj	_	_
26	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	29	nsubj	_	_
27	will	will	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	29	aux	_	_
28	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	29	advmod	_	_
29	refuse	refuse	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	24	acl:relcl	_	_
30	to	to	PART	TO	_	31	mark	_	_
31	fight	fight	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	29	xcomp	_	_
32	with	with	ADP	IN	_	33	case	_	_
33	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	31	obl	_	_
34	all	all	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	33	nmod:unmarked	_	SpaceAfter=No
35	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	7	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **send out** | future | you |  |  |  |  | against me | vn confine-92-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **swear** | present | I | six |  |  |  | by my god Mahomet | vn conjecture-29.5 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **not** **refuse** | future | I | my god Mahomet |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 4 | **fight** *not said to happen* | to-infinitive | I *not said here* |  |  |  |  | with Oliver | vn battle-36.4-1 «NP V PP.co-agent»: agent=Agent with they=Co-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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