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title: Now hearken to me: if you will deny your faith and declare that your… — Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of F… · tree and pragmatics
description: Now hearken to me: if you will deny your faith and declare that your God is no god, and believe in Mahomet, then I will give you my sister Floripas in marriage, than whom there is no fairer maid upon earth, and we two will conquer France or ever this year shall have passed, and I will make you King 
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# Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France, How Oliver Fought With Fierabras, sentence 53

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Now hearken to me: if you will deny your faith and declare that your God is no god, and believe in Mahomet, then I will give you my sister Floripas in marriage, than whom there is no fairer maid upon earth, and we two will conquer France or ever this year shall have passed, and I will make you King of one-half of this realm."

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**Who acts:** you, God, I, fairer maid, we · **What happens:** hearken, deny, declare, be, believe, give · **To what, where:** me, faith, god, Mahomet, sister, marriage · **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 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, God, I, fairer maid), 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:pg75339:17:53
# text = Now hearken to me: if you will deny your faith and declare that your God is no god, and believe in Mahomet, then I will give you my sister Floripas in marriage, than whom there is no fairer maid upon earth, and we two will conquer France or ever this year shall have passed, and I will make you King of one-half of this realm."
1	Now	now	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	2	advmod	_	_
2	hearken	hearken	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	to	to	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
4	me	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	2	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	9	punct	_	_
6	if	if	SCONJ	IN	_	9	mark	_	_
7	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	9	nsubj	_	_
8	will	will	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	9	aux	_	_
9	deny	deny	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	2	conj	_	_
10	your	your	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	11	nmod:poss	_	_
11	faith	faith	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obj	_	_
12	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	13	cc	_	_
13	declare	declare	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	9	conj	_	_
14	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	19	mark	_	_
15	your	your	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	19	nmod:poss	_	_
16	God	God	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	19	nsubj	_	_
17	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	19	cop	_	_
18	no	no	DET	DT	PronType=Neg	19	det	_	_
19	god	god	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	ccomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	22	punct	_	_
21	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	22	cc	_	_
22	believe	believe	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	9	conj	_	_
23	in	in	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	_
24	Mahomet	Mahomet	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	22	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	29	punct	_	_
26	then	then	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	29	advmod	_	_
27	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	29	nsubj	_	_
28	will	will	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	29	aux	_	_
29	give	give	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	9	conj	_	_
30	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Person=2|PronType=Prs	29	iobj	_	_
31	my	my	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	32	nmod:poss	_	_
32	sister	sister	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	29	iobj	_	_
33	Floripas	Floripas	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	32	appos	_	_
34	in	in	ADP	IN	_	35	case	_	_
35	marriage	marriage	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	29	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
36	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	38	punct	_	_
37	than	than	ADP	IN	_	38	case	_	_
38	whom	whom	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	40	obj	_	_
39	there	there	PRON	EX	PronType=Dem	40	expl	_	_
40	is	be	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	9	advcl	_	_
41	no	no	DET	DT	PronType=Neg	43	det	_	_
42	fairer	fair	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	43	amod	_	_
43	maid	maid	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	40	nsubj	_	_
44	upon	upon	ADP	IN	_	45	case	_	_
45	earth	earth	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	43	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
46	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	51	punct	_	_
47	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	51	cc	_	_
48	we	we	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs	51	nsubj	_	_
49	two	two	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	48	appos	_	_
50	will	will	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	51	aux	_	_
51	conquer	conquer	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	2	conj	_	_
52	France	France	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	59	nsubj:pass	_	_
53	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	56	cc	_	_
54	ever	ever	ADV	RB	PronType=Ind	56	advmod	_	_
55	this	this	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	56	det	_	_
56	year	year	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	52	conj	_	_
57	shall	shall	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	59	aux	_	_
58	have	have	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	59	aux	_	_
59	passed	pass	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	51	ccomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
60	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	64	punct	_	_
61	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	64	cc	_	_
62	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	64	nsubj	_	_
63	will	will	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	64	aux	_	_
64	make	make	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	2	conj	_	_
65	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Person=2|PronType=Prs	64	obj	_	_
66	King	King	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	64	obj	_	_
67	of	of	ADP	IN	_	70	case	_	_
68	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	70	nummod	_	SpaceAfter=No
69	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	68	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
70	half	half	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing|NumForm=Word|NumType=Frac	64	obl	_	_
71	of	of	ADP	IN	_	73	case	_	_
72	this	this	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	73	det	_	_
73	realm	realm	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	70	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
74	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
75	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **hearken** | imperative | you *not said here* |  | me |  | now |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **deny** *a condition, not said to happen* | future | you | your faith |  |  |  |  | vn conjecture-29.5 «NP V NP to be NP»: agent=Agent faith=Eventuality |
| 3 | **declare** *speech: other* | infinitive | you *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn declare-29.4-1-1-1 «NP V what S\_INF»: agent=Agent |
| 4 | **is a** | present | God | your god |  |  |  | your *nmod:poss* | tree rules |
| 5 | **believe** | infinitive | you *not said here* |  |  | Mahomet |  |  | vn admire-31.2 «NP V that S»: agent=Experiencer |
| 6 | **give** | future | I |  | my sister | marriage | then | you *iobj* | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent you=Recipient sister=Theme |
| 7 | **be** | present | no fairer maid upon earth |  |  | there |  | whom *obj* | vn representation-110.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot whom=Theme |
| 8 | **conquer** | future | we |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 9 | **pass** | shall · perfect · passive |  | France or this year |  |  |  |  | vn escape-51.1-1-3 «NP V NP»: subject=Trajectory |
| 10 | **make** | future | I | King | you |  |  | of one half of this realm | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP NP»: agent=Asset you=Beneficiary king=Product |

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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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