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description: Besides, though you have no more stone or iron, yet my father's treasure is here, wedges and plates of gold, wherewith you may slay the pagans as well as with stones, aye and better too." Who acts: you, treasure, father. A sentence of «Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France» by Alfred
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# Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France, Of Guy of Burgundy, sentence 105

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Besides, though you have no more stone or iron, yet my father's treasure is here, wedges and plates of gold, wherewith you may slay the pagans as well as with stones, aye and better too."

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**Who acts:** you, treasure, father · **What happens:** have, be, slay, treasure · **To what, where:** more stone, pagans

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This is a sentence of «Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France» by Alfred John Church, Of Guy of Burgundy. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (you, treasure, father), 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:pg75339:23:105
# text = Besides, though you have no more stone or iron, yet my father's treasure is here, wedges and plates of gold, wherewith you may slay the pagans as well as with stones, aye and better too."
1	Besides	besides	INTJ	UH	_	5	discourse	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	5	punct	_	_
3	though	though	SCONJ	IN	_	5	mark	_	_
4	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	5	nsubj	_	_
5	have	have	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
6	no	no	DET	DT	PronType=Neg	8	det	_	_
7	more	more	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	8	amod	_	_
8	stone	stone	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obj	_	_
9	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	10	cc	_	_
10	iron	iron	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	_
12	yet	yet	CCONJ	CC	_	18	cc	_	_
13	my	my	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	14	nmod:poss	_	_
14	father	father	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	's	's	PART	POS	_	14	case	_	_
16	treasure	treasure	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	nsubj	_	_
17	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	18	cop	_	_
18	here	here	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	5	parataxis	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	20	punct	_	_
20	wedges	wedge	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	18	conj	_	_
21	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	22	cc	_	_
22	plates	plate	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	20	conj	_	_
23	of	of	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	_
24	gold	gold	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	29	punct	_	_
26	wherewith	wherewith	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	29	advmod	_	_
27	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	29	nsubj	_	_
28	may	may	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	29	aux	_	_
29	slay	slay	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	5	conj	_	_
30	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	31	det	_	_
31	pagans	pagan	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	29	obj	_	_
32	as	as	ADV	RB	ExtPos=ADV	29	advmod	_	_
33	well	well	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	32	fixed	_	_
34	as	as	ADP	IN	_	36	case	_	_
35	with	with	ADP	IN	_	36	case	_	_
36	stones	stone	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	29	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
37	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	38	punct	_	_
38	aye	aye	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	36	conj	_	_
39	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	40	cc	_	_
40	better	good	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	36	conj	_	_
41	too	too	ADV	RB	_	29	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
42	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
43	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **have** | present | you | no more stone or iron |  |  |  |  | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent stone=Patient |
| 2 | **is** | present | my father's treasure |  |  |  |  | wedges of gold and plates *conj*; here *property* | tree rules |
| 3 | **slay** | may | you | the pagans |  |  |  | as stones and aye; wherewith *property* | vn murder-42.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent pagan=Patient |
| 4 | **treasure** |  | my father |  |  |  |  |  | nom treasure «possession transitive»: poss=agent |

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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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