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title: But the King said, "What shall my crown profit me, if I do this base… — Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of F… · tree and pragmatics
description: But the King said, "What shall my crown profit me, if I do this base thing, and leave these my knights to perish without help! Who acts: King. A sentence of «Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France» by Alfred John Church, Of Richard of Normandy, with its dependency tree and the pragmat
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# Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France, Of Richard of Normandy, sentence 105

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But the King said, "What shall my crown profit me, if I do this base thing, and leave these my knights to perish without help!

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**Who acts:** King · **What happens:** say, profit, do, leave, perish · **To what, where:** King, base thing, these · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of «Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France» by Alfred John Church, Of Richard of Normandy. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (King), 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:pg75339:24:105
# text = But the King said, "What shall my crown profit me, if I do this base thing, and leave these my knights to perish without help!
1	But	but	CCONJ	CC	_	4	cc	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	King	King	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
4	said	say	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
6	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	11	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	What	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	11	nsubj	_	_
8	shall	shall	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	11	aux	_	_
9	my	my	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	11	nmod:poss	_	_
10	crown	crown	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	compound	_	_
11	profit	profit	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	ccomp	_	_
12	me	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	11	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
14	if	if	SCONJ	IN	_	16	mark	_	_
15	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	16	nsubj	_	_
16	do	do	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	conj	_	_
17	this	this	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	19	det	_	_
18	base	base	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	compound	_	_
19	thing	thing	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	22	punct	_	_
21	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	22	cc	_	_
22	leave	leave	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	4	parataxis	_	_
23	these	this	PRON	DT	Number=Plur|PronType=Dem	22	obj	_	_
24	my	my	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	25	nmod:poss	_	_
25	knights	knight	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	22	obj	_	_
26	to	to	PART	TO	_	27	mark	_	_
27	perish	perish	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	22	advcl	_	_
28	without	without	ADP	IN	_	29	case	_	_
29	help	help	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	27	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
30	!	!	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **say** *speech: express* | past | the King |  |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 2 | **profit** *in a quote* | shall |  | the King *= king* |  |  |  | What *nsubj*; my *nmod:poss* | tree rules |
| 3 | **do** *a condition, not said to happen, in a quote* | present | the King *= king* | this base thing |  |  |  |  | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent thing=Eventuality |
| 4 | **leave** *in a quote* | infinitive |  | these |  |  |  | my knights *obj* | vn sustain-55.6-1 «NP V NP ADJ»: agent=Agent this=Theme knight=Attribute |
| 5 | **perish** *in a quote* | to-infinitive |  |  |  |  |  | without help | vn break\_down-45.8 «NP V»: agent=Patient |

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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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