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title: Oliver said, "If these things are true, it is time that you should s… — Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of F… · tree and pragmatics
description: Oliver said, "If these things are true, it is time that you should suffer due punishment for your misdeeds. Who acts: Oliver, things, thing, time. 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 
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# Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France, How Fierabras Defied King Charles, sentence 84

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Oliver said, "If these things are true, it is time that you should suffer due punishment for your misdeeds.

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**Who acts:** Oliver, things, thing, time · **What happens:** say, be, suffer · **To what, where:** time, due punishment · **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 (Oliver, things, thing, time), 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:pg75339:16:84
# text = Oliver said, "If these things are true, it is time that you should suffer due punishment for your misdeeds.
1	Oliver	Oliver	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	nsubj	_	_
2	said	say	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	9	punct	_	_
4	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	9	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	If	if	SCONJ	IN	_	9	mark	_	_
6	these	this	DET	DT	Number=Plur|PronType=Dem	7	det	_	_
7	things	thing	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	9	nsubj	_	_
8	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	9	cop	_	_
9	true	true	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	2	ccomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
11	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	13	nsubj	_	_
12	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	13	cop	_	_
13	time	time	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	conj	_	_
14	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	17	nsubj	_	_
15	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	17	nsubj	_	_
16	should	should	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	17	aux	_	_
17	suffer	suffer	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	13	acl:relcl	_	_
18	due	due	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	19	amod	_	_
19	punishment	punishment	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	obj	_	_
20	for	for	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
21	your	your	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	22	nmod:poss	_	_
22	misdeeds	misdeed	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	17	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	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 | Oliver |  |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **is** *a condition, not said to happen, in a quote* | present | this things |  |  |  |  | true *property* | tree rules |
| 3 | **is a** *in a quote* | present | thing | time |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 4 | **suffer** *in a quote* | should | time | due punishment |  |  |  | for your misdeeds; you *nsubj* | vn admire-31.2 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer punishment=Stimulus for misdeed=Attribute |

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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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