--- title: Also he commands you to set free certain knights of his whom you hol… — Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of F… · tree and pragmatics description: Also he commands you to set free certain knights of his whom you hold in prison; which things if you fail to do forthwith he will cause you to be hanged by the neck till you die." Who acts: Duke, you, neck. 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The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Duke, you, neck), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. **Mova's own parse.** This tree may be wrong. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = book:pg75339:21:11 # text = Also he commands you to set free certain knights of his whom you hold in prison; which things if you fail to do forthwith he will cause you to be hanged by the neck till you die." 1 Also also ADV RB _ 3 advmod _ _ 2 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 3 nsubj _ _ 3 commands command VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 4 you you PRON PRP Case=Acc|Person=2|PronType=Prs 3 obj _ _ 5 to to PART TO _ 6 mark _ _ 6 set set VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 3 xcomp _ _ 7 free free ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 9 amod _ _ 8 certain certain ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 9 amod _ _ 9 knights knight NOUN NNS Number=Plur 6 obj _ _ 10 of of ADP IN _ 12 case _ _ 11 his his PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 12 nmod:poss _ _ 12 whom whom PRON WP PronType=Rel 9 nmod _ _ 13 you you PRON PRP Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs 14 nsubj _ _ 14 hold hold VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 12 acl:relcl _ _ 15 in in ADP IN _ 16 case _ _ 16 prison prison NOUN NN Number=Sing 14 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 17 ; ; PUNCT , _ 19 punct _ _ 18 which which DET WDT PronType=Int 19 det _ _ 19 things thing NOUN NNS Number=Plur 9 conj _ _ 20 if if SCONJ IN _ 22 mark _ _ 21 you you PRON PRP Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs 22 nsubj _ _ 22 fail fail VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 28 advcl _ _ 23 to to PART TO _ 24 mark _ _ 24 do do AUX VB Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin 28 aux _ _ 25 forthwith forthwith ADV RB _ 24 advmod _ _ 26 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 28 nsubj _ _ 27 will will AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 28 aux _ _ 28 cause cause VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 6 parataxis _ _ 29 you you PRON PRP Case=Acc|Person=2|PronType=Prs 28 obj _ _ 30 to to PART TO _ 32 mark _ _ 31 be be AUX VB VerbForm=Inf 32 aux:pass _ _ 32 hanged hange VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 28 advcl _ _ 33 by by ADP IN _ 35 case _ _ 34 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 35 det _ _ 35 neck neck NOUN NN Number=Sing 32 obl _ _ 36 till till SCONJ IN _ 38 mark _ _ 37 you you PRON PRP Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs 38 nsubj _ _ 38 die die VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 32 advcl _ SpaceAfter=No 39 . . PUNCT . _ 3 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 40 " " PUNCT '' _ 3 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **command** | present | Duke | you | | | | | vn order-58.3-1 «NP V NP S\_ING»: agent=Agent you=Recipient clause=Topic | | 2 | **set** *not said to happen* | to-infinitive | Duke *not said here* | free certain knights and which things | | | | | vn other\_cos-45.4-1 «NP V NP ADJ»: agent=Patient knight=Result | | 3 | **hold** | present | you | | | prison | | | vn exist-47.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in prison=Location | | 4 | **fail** *a condition, not said to happen* | present | you | | | | | | vn succeed-74-3-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 5 | **cause** | future · infinitive · do-support | Duke | you | | | | | vn engender-27.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Precondition you=Patient | | 6 | **hange** | to-infinitive · passive | the neck | | | | | | tree rules | | 7 | **die** | present | you | | | | | | vn calibratable\_cos-45.6.1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute | 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. **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. - ← previous: [sentence 10](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg75339/21/10/) - next →: [sentence 12](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg75339/21/12/) - ↑ back to [Of the Doings of Floripas](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg75339/21/)