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title: I have a good confidence that I shall either slay you or conquer you." — Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of F… · tree and pragmatics
description: I have a good confidence that I shall either slay you or conquer you." Who acts: I. 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 80

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I have a good confidence that I shall either slay you or conquer you."

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**Who acts:** I · **What happens:** have, slay, conquer · **To what, where:** good confidence, you

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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 (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:pg75339:17:80
# text = I have a good confidence that I shall either slay you or conquer you."
1	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	2	nsubj	_	_
2	have	have	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
4	good	good	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	amod	_	_
5	confidence	confidence	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obj	_	_
6	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	10	mark	_	_
7	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	10	nsubj	_	_
8	shall	shall	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	10	aux	_	_
9	either	either	ADV	RB	PronType=Ind	10	advmod	_	_
10	slay	slay	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	5	acl	_	_
11	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Person=2|PronType=Prs	10	obj	_	_
12	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	13	cc	_	_
13	conquer	conquer	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	10	conj	_	_
14	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Person=2|PronType=Prs	13	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **have** | present | I | a good confidence |  |  |  |  | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent confidence=Patient |
| 2 | **slay** | shall | I | you |  |  |  | either *property* | vn murder-42.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent you=Patient |
| 3 | **conquer** | infinitive | I *not said here* | you |  |  |  |  | vn subjugate-42.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent you=Patient |

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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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