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title: But if you will not send out any man, then I will assuredly assail y… — Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of F… · tree and pragmatics
description: But if you will not send out any man, then I will assuredly assail your camp before nightfall this very day, and strike off your head, and lead away Roland and Oliver as prisoners. Who acts: you, I. A sentence of «Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France» by Alfred John Church, How Fier
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# Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France, How Fierabras Defied King Charles, sentence 9

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But if you will not send out any man, then I will assuredly assail your camp before nightfall this very day, and strike off your head, and lead away Roland and Oliver as prisoners.

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**Who acts:** you, I · **What happens:** not send out, assail, strike off, lead away · **To what, where:** man, camp, head, Roland

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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:pg75339:16:9
# text = But if you will not send out any man, then I will assuredly assail your camp before nightfall this very day, and strike off your head, and lead away Roland and Oliver as prisoners.
1	But	but	CCONJ	CC	_	15	cc	_	_
2	if	if	SCONJ	IN	_	6	mark	_	_
3	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	6	nsubj	_	_
4	will	will	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	6	aux	_	_
5	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	6	advmod	_	_
6	send	send	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	15	advcl	_	_
7	out	out	ADP	RP	_	6	compound:prt	_	_
8	any	any	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	9	det	_	_
9	man	man	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	6	punct	_	_
11	then	then	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	15	advmod	_	_
12	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	15	nsubj	_	_
13	will	will	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	15	aux	_	_
14	assuredly	assuredly	ADV	RB	_	15	advmod	_	_
15	assail	assail	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
16	your	your	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	17	nmod:poss	_	_
17	camp	camp	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	obj	_	_
18	before	before	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
19	nightfall	nightfall	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	obl	_	_
20	this	this	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	22	det	_	_
21	very	very	ADV	RB	_	22	advmod	_	_
22	day	day	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	obl:unmarked	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	25	punct	_	_
24	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	25	cc	_	_
25	strike	strike	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	15	conj	_	_
26	off	off	ADP	RP	_	25	compound:prt	_	_
27	your	your	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	28	nmod:poss	_	_
28	head	head	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
29	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	31	punct	_	_
30	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	31	cc	_	_
31	lead	lead	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	15	conj	_	_
32	away	away	ADV	RB	_	31	advmod	_	_
33	Roland	Roland	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	31	obj	_	_
34	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	35	cc	_	_
35	Oliver	Oliver	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	33	conj	_	_
36	as	as	ADP	IN	_	37	case	_	_
37	prisoners	prisoner	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	31	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
38	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	15	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **not** **send out** *a condition, not said to happen* | future | you | any man |  |  |  |  | vn confine-92-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent man=Theme |
| 2 | **assail** | future | I | your camp |  |  | before nightfall; then; day | assuredly *property* | vn attack-60.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent camp=Patient |
| 3 | **strike off** | infinitive | I *not said here* | your head |  |  |  |  | vn hit-18.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent head=Patient |
| 4 | **lead away** | infinitive | I *not said here* | Roland and Oliver |  |  |  | as prisoners; away *property* | vn spend\_time-104 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Agent roland=Duration as prisoner=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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