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description: But you see that I am in a great strait, for if these men overtake me then shall I of a certainty be slain, and King Charles will never see me more." Who acts: you, I, men, Charles. A sentence of «Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France» by Alfred John Church, How Oliver and Others Wer
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# Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France, How Oliver and Others Were Taken Prisoners, sentence 16

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But you see that I am in a great strait, for if these men overtake me then shall I of a certainty be slain, and King Charles will never see me more."

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**Who acts:** you, I, men, Charles · **What happens:** see, be, overtake, not see · **To what, where:** great strait, me · **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 and Others Were Taken Prisoners. 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, men, Charles), 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:pg75339:18:16
# text = But you see that I am in a great strait, for if these men overtake me then shall I of a certainty be slain, and King Charles will never see me more."
1	But	but	CCONJ	CC	_	3	cc	_	_
2	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
3	see	see	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	10	mark	_	_
5	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	10	nsubj	_	_
6	am	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	10	cop	_	_
7	in	in	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
8	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
9	great	great	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	10	amod	_	_
10	strait	strait	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	ccomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
12	for	for	SCONJ	IN	_	16	mark	_	_
13	if	if	SCONJ	IN	_	16	mark	_	_
14	these	this	DET	DT	Number=Plur|PronType=Dem	15	det	_	_
15	men	man	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	16	nsubj	_	_
16	overtake	overtake	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	3	conj	_	_
17	me	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	16	obj	_	_
18	then	then	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	25	advmod	_	_
19	shall	shall	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	25	aux	_	_
20	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	25	nsubj	_	_
21	of	of	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
22	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	23	det	_	_
23	certainty	certainty	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	nmod	_	_
24	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	25	cop	_	_
25	slain	slain	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	16	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	32	punct	_	_
27	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	32	cc	_	_
28	King	King	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	29	nmod:desc	_	_
29	Charles	Charles	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	32	nsubj	_	_
30	will	will	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	32	aux	_	_
31	never	never	ADV	RB	PronType=Neg	32	advmod	_	_
32	see	see	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	3	conj	_	_
33	me	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	32	obj	_	_
34	more	more	ADV	RBR	Degree=Cmp	32	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
35	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
36	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **see** | present | you |  |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer |
| 2 | **is** | present | I |  |  | a great strait |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **overtake** *a condition, not said to happen* | infinitive | this men | me |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 4 | **is** | shall | I |  |  |  | then | slain *property* | tree rules |
| 5 | **not** **see** | future | Charles  King | me |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer i=Stimulus |

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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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