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title: Rather pray to God that of His goodness He will help Oliver." — Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of F… · tree and pragmatics
description: Rather pray to God that of His goodness He will help Oliver." Who acts: god. A sentence of «Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France» by Alfred John Church, How Oliver Fought With Fierabras, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France, How Oliver Fought With Fierabras, sentence 41

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Rather pray to God that of His goodness He will help Oliver."

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**Who acts:** god · **What happens:** pray, help · **To what, where:** God, that

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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 (god), 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:pg75339:17:41
# text = Rather pray to God that of His goodness He will help Oliver."
1	Rather	rather	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	2	aux	_	_
2	pray	pray	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	to	to	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
4	God	God	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	obj	_	_
5	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	11	obj	_	_
6	of	of	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
7	His	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	8	nmod:poss	_	_
8	goodness	goodness	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	obl	_	_
9	He	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	11	nsubj	_	_
10	will	will	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	11	aux	_	_
11	help	help	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	4	parataxis	_	_
12	Oliver	Oliver	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	11	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **pray** |  |  | God |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **help** | future | god | that |  |  |  | of god's goodness; Oliver *obj* | tree rules |

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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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