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title: This porter I will slay, if he seek to hinder me." — Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of F… · tree and pragmatics
description: This porter I will slay, if he seek to hinder me." Who acts: porter. A sentence of «Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France» by Alfred John Church, Of the Bridge of Mantryble, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France, Of the Bridge of Mantryble, sentence 72

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This porter I will slay, if he seek to hinder me."

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**Who acts:** porter · **What happens:** slay, seek, hinder · **To what, where:** me

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This is a sentence of «Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France» by Alfred John Church, Of the Bridge of Mantryble. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (porter), 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:pg75339:20:72
# text = This porter I will slay, if he seek to hinder me."
1	This	this	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	2	det	_	_
2	porter	porter	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	_
3	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	5	nsubj	_	_
4	will	will	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	5	aux	_	_
5	slay	slay	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	9	punct	_	_
7	if	if	SCONJ	IN	_	9	mark	_	_
8	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	9	nsubj	_	_
9	seek	seek	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	5	conj	_	_
10	to	to	PART	TO	_	11	mark	_	_
11	hinder	hinder	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	9	xcomp	_	_
12	me	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	11	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **slay** | future | this porter |  |  |  |  | I *nsubj* | vn murder-42.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **seek** *a condition, not said to happen* | infinitive | porter |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **hinder** *not said to happen* | to-infinitive | porter *not said here* | me |  |  |  |  | vn discourage-64.5-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Causer i=Eventuality |

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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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