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title: The pagans took him out of our hands, notwithstanding all that we co… — Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of F… · tree and pragmatics
description: The pagans took him out of our hands, notwithstanding all that we could do; and how he will fare in their hands we know not." Who acts: pagans, we, Floripas. A sentence of «Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France» by Alfred John Church, Of Guy of Burgundy, with its dependency tree and 
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# Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France, Of Guy of Burgundy, sentence 5

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The pagans took him out of our hands, notwithstanding all that we could do; and how he will fare in their hands we know not."

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**Who acts:** pagans, we, Floripas · **What happens:** take, notwithstand, do, fare, not know · **To what, where:** Floripas, hands

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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 (pagans, we, Floripas), 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:pg75339:23:5
# text = The pagans took him out of our hands, notwithstanding all that we could do; and how he will fare in their hands we know not."
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	pagans	pagan	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	nsubj	_	_
3	took	take	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	obj	_	_
5	out	out	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
6	of	of	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
7	our	our	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	8	nmod:poss	_	_
8	hands	hand	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
10	notwithstanding	notwithstand	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	3	advcl	_	_
11	all	all	DET	PDT	PronType=Tot	10	advmod	_	_
12	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	15	mark	_	_
13	we	we	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs	15	nsubj	_	_
14	could	could	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	15	aux	_	_
15	do	do	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	10	xcomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	21	punct	_	_
17	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	21	cc	_	_
18	how	how	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	21	advmod	_	_
19	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	21	nsubj	_	_
20	will	will	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	21	aux	_	_
21	fare	fare	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	3	parataxis	_	_
22	in	in	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	_
23	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	24	nmod:poss	_	_
24	hands	hand	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	21	obl	_	_
25	we	we	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs	26	nsubj	_	_
26	know	know	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	21	parataxis	_	_
27	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	26	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
29	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **take** | past | the pagans | Floripas |  | our hands |  |  | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP PP.initial\_location»: agent=Agent he=Theme out hand=Initial\_Location |
| 2 | **notwithstand** | gerund | the pagans *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **do** | could | we |  |  |  |  |  | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 4 | **fare** | future | Floripas |  |  | pagans's hands |  |  | tree rules |
| 5 | **not** **know** | present | we |  |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «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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