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description: Verily, if aught happen to him, I swear by my father's soul that I will burn every monastery and church and altar in the land." Who acts: aught, I, soul. A sentence of «Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France» by Alfred John Church, How Oliver Fought With Fierabras, with its dependency
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# Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France, How Oliver Fought With Fierabras, sentence 39

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Verily, if aught happen to him, I swear by my father's soul that I will burn every monastery and church and altar in the land."

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**Who acts:** aught, I, soul · **What happens:** happen, swear, burn · **To what, where:** King, monastery, land

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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 (aught, I, soul), 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:pg75339:17:39
# text = Verily, if aught happen to him, I swear by my father's soul that I will burn every monastery and church and altar in the land."
1	Verily	verily	ADV	RB	_	10	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	1	punct	_	_
3	if	if	SCONJ	IN	_	5	mark	_	_
4	aught	aught	PRON	NN	PronType=Ind	5	nsubj	_	_
5	happen	happen	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	10	advcl	_	_
6	to	to	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
7	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	5	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	5	punct	_	_
9	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	10	nsubj	_	_
10	swear	swear	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
11	by	by	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
12	my	my	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	13	nmod:poss	_	_
13	father	father	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	's	's	PART	POS	_	13	case	_	_
15	soul	soul	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obl	_	_
16	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	19	nsubj	_	_
17	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	19	nsubj	_	_
18	will	will	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	19	aux	_	_
19	burn	burn	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	15	acl:relcl	_	_
20	every	every	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	21	det	_	_
21	monastery	monastery	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	obj	_	_
22	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	23	cc	_	_
23	church	church	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	conj	_	_
24	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	25	cc	_	_
25	altar	altar	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	conj	_	_
26	in	in	ADP	IN	_	28	case	_	_
27	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	28	det	_	_
28	land	land	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
29	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	10	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
30	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	10	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **happen** *a condition, not said to happen* | present | aught |  | King |  |  |  | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **swear** | present | I |  |  |  |  | by my father's soul; verily *property* | vn conjecture-29.5 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **burn** | future | my father's soul | every monastery and church and altar |  | the land |  | I *nsubj* | vn light\_emission-43.1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent monastery=Theme |

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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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