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title: If it please you I will go and see in what condition they are." — Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of F… · tree and pragmatics
description: If it please you I will go and see in what condition they are." Who acts: I. A sentence of «Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France» by Alfred John Church, Of the Doings of the French Knights, 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 Doings of the French Knights, sentence 8

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If it please you I will go and see in what condition they are."

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**Who acts:** I · **What happens:** go, see · **To what, where:** condition

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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 (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:pg75339:22:8
# text = If it please you I will go and see in what condition they are."
1	If	if	SCONJ	IN	_	4	mark	_	_
2	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	4	nsubj	_	_
3	please	please	INTJ	UH	_	4	discourse	_	_
4	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	7	advcl	_	_
5	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	7	nsubj	_	_
6	will	will	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	7	aux	_	_
7	go	go	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
8	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	9	cc	_	_
9	see	see	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	7	conj	_	_
10	in	in	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
11	what	what	DET	WDT	PronType=Int	12	det	_	_
12	condition	condition	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obl	_	_
13	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	14	nsubj	_	_
14	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	12	acl:relcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	7	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	7	punct	_	_
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## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **go** | future | I |  |  |  |  | you *advcl* | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **see** | infinitive | I *not said here* |  |  | what condition |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer |

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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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