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title: Now if it should chance that I am slain in taking this message, this… — Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of F… · tree and pragmatics
description: Now if it should chance that I am slain in taking this message, this my son would hold my heritage and do service to King Charles." Who acts: place, that, slain, son. A sentence of «Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France» by Alfred John Church, Of Richard of Normandy, with its depende
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# Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France, Of Richard of Normandy, sentence 16

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Now if it should chance that I am slain in taking this message, this my son would hold my heritage and do service to King Charles."

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**Who acts:** place, that, slain, son · **What happens:** chance, be, take, hold, do · **To what, where:** slain, message, heritage, service, Charles

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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 (place, that, slain, son), 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:pg75339:24:16
# text = Now if it should chance that I am slain in taking this message, this my son would hold my heritage and do service to King Charles."
1	Now	now	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	19	advmod	_	_
2	if	if	SCONJ	IN	_	5	mark	_	_
3	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	5	nsubj	_	_
4	should	should	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	5	aux	_	_
5	chance	chance	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	ccomp	_	_
6	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	9	nsubj	_	_
7	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	9	nsubj	_	_
8	am	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	9	cop	_	_
9	slain	slain	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	appos	_	_
10	in	in	SCONJ	IN	_	11	mark	_	_
11	taking	take	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	9	acl	_	_
12	this	this	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	13	det	_	_
13	message	message	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	1	punct	_	_
15	this	this	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	17	det	_	_
16	my	my	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	17	nmod:poss	_	_
17	son	son	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	nsubj	_	_
18	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	19	aux	_	_
19	hold	hold	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
20	my	my	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	21	nmod:poss	_	_
21	heritage	heritage	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	obj	_	_
22	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	23	cc	_	_
23	do	do	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	19	conj	_	_
24	service	service	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	obj	_	_
25	to	to	ADP	IN	_	27	case	_	_
26	King	King	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	27	nmod:desc	_	_
27	Charles	Charles	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	23	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	19	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
29	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	19	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **chance** *a condition, not said to happen* | should | place |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **is a** | present | that | slain |  |  |  | I *nsubj* | tree rules |
| 3 | **take** | gerund | slain *not said here* | this message |  |  |  |  | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent message=Theme |
| 4 | **hold** | would | my son | my heritage |  |  | now |  | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent heritage=Theme |
| 5 | **do** | present | my son *not said here* | service | Charles  King |  |  |  | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent service=Eventuality |

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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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