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title: God in heaven help thee to escape these Pagans, and come again into… — Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of F… · tree and pragmatics
description: God in heaven help thee to escape these Pagans, and come again into the hands of Christian men, whom thou mayst faithfully serve in great straits, even as thou hast served me." Who acts: God, thee, thou. A sentence of «Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France» by Alfred John Church, Of 
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# Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France, Of Richard of Normandy, sentence 50

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God in heaven help thee to escape these Pagans, and come again into the hands of Christian men, whom thou mayst faithfully serve in great straits, even as thou hast served me."

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**Who acts:** God, thee, thou · **What happens:** help, escape, come, serve, have · **To what, where:** thee, Pagans, hands, Christian men, great straits, me

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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 (God, thee, thou), 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:pg75339:24:50
# text = God in heaven help thee to escape these Pagans, and come again into the hands of Christian men, whom thou mayst faithfully serve in great straits, even as thou hast served me."
1	God	God	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
2	in	in	ADP	IN	_	3	case	_	_
3	heaven	heaven	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	nmod	_	_
4	help	help	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	thee	thou	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch	4	obj	_	_
6	to	to	PART	TO	_	7	mark	_	_
7	escape	escape	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	4	xcomp	_	_
8	these	this	DET	DT	Number=Plur|PronType=Dem	9	det	_	_
9	Pagans	Pagan	PROPN	NNPS	Number=Plur	7	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
11	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	12	cc	_	_
12	come	come	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	4	parataxis	_	_
13	again	again	ADV	RB	_	12	advmod	_	_
14	into	into	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
15	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
16	hands	hand	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	12	obl	_	_
17	of	of	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
18	Christian	Christian	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	19	amod	_	_
19	men	man	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	16	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	25	punct	_	_
21	whom	whom	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	25	obj	_	_
22	thou	thou	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch	25	nsubj	_	_
23	mayst	may	AUX	MD	Style=Arch|VerbForm=Fin	25	aux	_	_
24	faithfully	faithfully	ADV	RB	_	25	advmod	_	_
25	serve	serve	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	19	acl:relcl	_	_
26	in	in	ADP	IN	_	28	case	_	_
27	great	great	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	28	amod	_	_
28	straits	strait	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	25	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
29	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	33	punct	_	_
30	even	even	ADV	RB	_	33	advmod	_	_
31	as	as	SCONJ	IN	_	33	mark	_	_
32	thou	thou	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch	33	nsubj	_	_
33	hast	have	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Style=Arch|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	12	parataxis	_	_
34	served	serve	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	33	ccomp	_	_
35	me	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	34	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
36	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
37	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **help** | present | God in heaven | thee |  |  |  |  | vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V NP S\_INF»: agent=Agent thou=Beneficiary clause=Theme |
| 2 | **escape** | to-infinitive | thee *not said here* | this Pagans |  |  |  |  | vn escape-51.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme pagan=Initial\_Location |
| 3 | **come** | infinitive |  |  |  | the hands of Christian men | again |  | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme into hand=Initial\_Location |
| 4 | **serve** | may | thou | Christian men |  | great straits |  | faithfully *property* | vn fit-54.3 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent whom=Value in strait=Location |
| 5 | **have** | present | thou |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 6 | **serve** | past | thou *not said here* | me |  |  |  |  | vn masquerade-29.6-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent i=Attribute |

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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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