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title: If they be not all slain, I shall be very ill content." — Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of F… · tree and pragmatics
description: If they be not all slain, I shall be very ill content." Who acts: Frenchmen, 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 97

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If they be not all slain, I shall be very ill content."

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**Who acts:** Frenchmen, I · **What happens:** not be, be · **To what, where:** slain, ill content

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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 (Frenchmen, 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:pg75339:22:97
# text = If they be not all slain, I shall be very ill content."
1	If	if	SCONJ	IN	_	6	mark	_	_
2	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	6	nsubj	_	_
3	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	6	cop	_	_
4	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	6	advmod	_	_
5	all	all	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	6	det	_	_
6	slain	slain	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	6	punct	_	_
8	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	13	nsubj	_	_
9	shall	shall	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	13	aux	_	_
10	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	13	cop	_	_
11	very	very	ADV	RB	_	12	advmod	_	_
12	ill	ill	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	13	amod	_	_
13	content	content	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	13	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	13	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **not** **is a** *a condition, not said to happen* | infinitive | Frenchmen *= frenchman* | all slain |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **is a** | shall | I | ill content |  |  |  |  | tree rules |

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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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