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title: It would be well, therefore, that we send a messenger to King Charle… — Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of F… · tree and pragmatics
description: It would be well, therefore, that we send a messenger to King Charles, telling him that if he would not have us perish he must send us help." Who acts: last, we, Charles. A sentence of «Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France» by Alfred John Church, Of Richard of Normandy, with its dep
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# Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France, Of Richard of Normandy, sentence 3

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It would be well, therefore, that we send a messenger to King Charles, telling him that if he would not have us perish he must send us help."

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**Who acts:** last, we, Charles · **What happens:** be, send, tell, not have, perish, help · **To what, where:** messenger, Charles, us · **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 (last, we, Charles), 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:pg75339:24:3
# text = It would be well, therefore, that we send a messenger to King Charles, telling him that if he would not have us perish he must send us help."
1	It	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	4	nsubj	_	_
2	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	4	aux	_	_
3	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	4	cop	_	_
4	well	well	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	10	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	4	punct	_	_
6	therefore	therefore	ADV	RB	_	10	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
8	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	10	mark	_	_
9	we	we	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs	10	nsubj	_	_
10	send	send	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
11	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
12	messenger	messenger	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obj	_	_
13	to	to	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
14	King	King	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	15	nmod:desc	_	_
15	Charles	Charles	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	10	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	_
17	telling	tell	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	10	advcl	_	_
18	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	17	iobj	_	_
19	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	26	mark	_	_
20	if	if	SCONJ	IN	_	24	mark	_	_
21	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	24	nsubj	_	_
22	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	24	aux	_	_
23	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	24	advmod	_	_
24	have	have	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	26	advcl	_	_
25	us	we	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs	24	obj	_	_
26	perish	perish	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	17	advcl	_	_
27	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	29	nsubj	_	_
28	must	must	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	29	aux	_	_
29	send	send	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	26	ccomp	_	_
30	us	we	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs	29	iobj	_	_
31	help	help	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	29	xcomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
32	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	10	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
33	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	10	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | would | last |  |  |  |  | well *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **send** | present | we | a messenger | Charles  King |  |  | therefore *property* | vn confine-92-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent messenger=Theme to charles=Destination |
| 3 | **tell** *speech: assert* | gerund | we *not said here* |  | Charles |  |  |  | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent he=Recipient |
| 4 | **not** **have** *a condition, not said to happen* | would | Charles | us |  |  |  |  | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent we=Patient |
| 5 | **perish** | infinitive | we *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 6 | **send** | must | Charles |  | us |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 7 | **help** | infinitive | Charles *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=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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