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title: Nevertheless as you are a courteous knight, I will require you once… — Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of F… · tree and pragmatics
description: Nevertheless as you are a courteous knight, I will require you once again to forsake Mahomet and your false gods, and submit yourself to be baptized. Who acts: you, I. A sentence of «Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France» by Alfred John Church, How Oliver Fought With Fierabras, with 
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# Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France, How Oliver Fought With Fierabras, sentence 15

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Nevertheless as you are a courteous knight, I will require you once again to forsake Mahomet and your false gods, and submit yourself to be baptized.

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**Who acts:** you, I · **What happens:** be, require, forsake, submit, baptize · **To what, where:** courteous knight, you, Mahomet, yourself

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This is a sentence of «Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France» by Alfred John Church, How Oliver Fought With Fierabras. 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:pg75339:17:15
# text = Nevertheless as you are a courteous knight, I will require you once again to forsake Mahomet and your false gods, and submit yourself to be baptized.
1	Nevertheless	nevertheless	ADV	RB	_	7	advmod	_	_
2	as	as	SCONJ	IN	_	7	mark	_	_
3	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	7	nsubj	_	_
4	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	7	cop	_	_
5	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
6	courteous	courteous	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	amod	_	_
7	knight	knight	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	7	punct	_	_
9	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	11	nsubj	_	_
10	will	will	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	11	aux	_	_
11	require	require	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
12	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Person=2|PronType=Prs	11	obj	_	_
13	once	once	ADV	RB	NumForm=Word|NumType=Mult	14	advmod	_	_
14	again	again	ADV	RB	_	11	advmod	_	_
15	to	to	PART	TO	_	16	mark	_	_
16	forsake	forsake	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	11	advcl	_	_
17	Mahomet	Mahomet	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	16	obj	_	_
18	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	21	cc	_	_
19	your	your	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	21	nmod:poss	_	_
20	false	false	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	21	amod	_	_
21	gods	god	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	17	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	24	punct	_	_
23	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	24	cc	_	_
24	submit	submit	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	11	conj	_	_
25	yourself	yourself	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Reflex=Yes	24	obj	_	_
26	to	to	PART	TO	_	28	mark	_	_
27	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	28	aux:pass	_	_
28	baptized	baptize	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	24	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
29	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	11	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** | present | you | a courteous knight |  |  |  | nevertheless *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **require** | future | I | you |  |  | again |  | vn require-103-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme you=Precondition |
| 3 | **forsake** | to-infinitive | I *not said here* | Mahomet and your false gods |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 4 | **submit** | infinitive | I *not said here* | yourself |  |  |  |  | vn contribute-13.2-1-1 «NP V NP.theme (PP)»: agent=Agent yourself=Theme |
| 5 | **baptize** | to-infinitive · passive | I *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn dub-29.3.2 «NP V NP» |

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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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