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title: For," said Charles, "any man that shall draw sword in this place sha… — Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of F… · tree and pragmatics
description: For," said Charles, "any man that shall draw sword in this place shall be hanged as a thief, though he be of the highest estate." Who acts: Charles, man. 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 
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# Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France, Of Richard of Normandy, sentence 113

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For," said Charles, "any man that shall draw sword in this place shall be hanged as a thief, though he be of the highest estate."

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**Who acts:** Charles, man · **What happens:** say, draw, hange, be · **To what, where:** sword, place, man · **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 (Charles, man), 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:pg75339:24:113
# text = For," said Charles, "any man that shall draw sword in this place shall be hanged as a thief, though he be of the highest estate."
1	For	for	SCONJ	IN	_	4	mark	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	1	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	4	punct	_	_
4	said	say	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	19	advcl	_	_
5	Charles	Charles	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	4	punct	_	_
7	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	9	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	any	any	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	9	det	_	_
9	man	man	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	nsubj:pass	_	_
10	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	12	nsubj	_	_
11	shall	shall	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	12	aux	_	_
12	draw	draw	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	9	acl:relcl	_	_
13	sword	sword	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	obj	_	_
14	in	in	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
15	this	this	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	16	det	_	_
16	place	place	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	obl	_	_
17	shall	shall	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	19	aux	_	_
18	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	19	aux:pass	_	_
19	hanged	hange	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
20	as	as	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
21	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	22	det	_	_
22	thief	thief	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	30	punct	_	_
24	though	though	SCONJ	IN	_	30	mark	_	_
25	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	30	nsubj	_	_
26	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	30	cop	_	_
27	of	of	ADP	IN	_	30	case	_	_
28	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	30	det	_	_
29	highest	high	ADJ	JJS	Degree=Sup	30	amod	_	_
30	estate	estate	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
31	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	19	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
32	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	19	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **say** *speech: assert* *in a quote* | past | Charles |  |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **draw** | shall | any man | sword |  | this place |  |  | vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent sword=Theme in place=Destination |
| 3 | **hange** | shall · passive |  | any man |  |  |  | as a thief | tree rules |
| 4 | **is** | infinitive | man |  |  |  |  | of the highest estate | 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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