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title: As soon as it shall be known that he has been slain, you will be ass… — Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of F… · tree and pragmatics
description: As soon as it shall be known that he has been slain, you will be assailed; and if you be vanquished, not all the gold in the world will redeem you from death. Who acts: gold. A sentence of «Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France» by Alfred John Church, Of the Doings of the French Knig
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# Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France, Of the Doings of the French Knights, sentence 43

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As soon as it shall be known that he has been slain, you will be assailed; and if you be vanquished, not all the gold in the world will redeem you from death.

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**Who acts:** gold · **What happens:** know, slay, assail, vanquish, redeem · **To what, where:** doubtless, Lucifer, you, death

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This is a sentence of «Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France» by Alfred John Church, Of the Doings of the French Knights. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (gold), 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:pg75339:22:43
# text = As soon as it shall be known that he has been slain, you will be assailed; and if you be vanquished, not all the gold in the world will redeem you from death.
1	As	as	ADV	RB	_	2	advmod	_	_
2	soon	soon	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	7	advmod	_	_
3	as	as	SCONJ	IN	_	7	mark	_	_
4	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	7	nsubj:pass	_	_
5	shall	shall	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	7	aux	_	_
6	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	7	aux:pass	_	_
7	known	know	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
8	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	12	mark	_	_
9	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	12	nsubj	_	_
10	has	have	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	12	aux	_	_
11	been	be	AUX	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	12	aux:pass	_	_
12	slain	slay	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	17	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
14	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	17	nsubj	_	_
15	will	will	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	17	aux	_	_
16	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	17	aux:pass	_	_
17	assailed	assail	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	7	parataxis	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	33	punct	_	_
19	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	33	cc	_	_
20	if	if	SCONJ	IN	_	23	mark	_	_
21	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	23	nsubj	_	_
22	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	23	aux:pass	_	_
23	vanquished	vanquish	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	33	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	28	punct	_	_
25	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	28	advmod	_	_
26	all	all	DET	PDT	PronType=Tot	28	det:predet	_	_
27	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	28	det	_	_
28	gold	gold	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	33	nsubj	_	_
29	in	in	ADP	IN	_	31	case	_	_
30	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	31	det	_	_
31	world	world	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	28	nmod	_	_
32	will	will	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	33	aux	_	_
33	redeem	redeem	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	7	conj	_	_
34	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Person=2|PronType=Prs	33	obj	_	_
35	from	from	ADP	IN	_	36	case	_	_
36	death	death	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	33	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
37	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	7	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **know** | shall · passive |  | doubtless |  |  |  | soon *property* | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: subject=Stimulus |
| 2 | **slay** | present · perfect · passive |  | Lucifer |  |  |  |  | vn murder-42.1 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient |
| 3 | **assail** | future · passive |  | you |  |  |  |  | vn attack-60.1 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient |
| 4 | **vanquish** *a condition, not said to happen* | infinitive · passive |  | you |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 5 | **redeem** | future | all gold in the world | you |  | death |  |  | vn steal-10.5 «NP V NP PP.source»: agent=Agent you=Theme from death=Source |

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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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