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title: Know you not that the whole land is covered with the Saracens, so th… — Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of F… · tree and pragmatics
description: Know you not that the whole land is covered with the Saracens, so that as soon as the messenger is parted from us he will be slain by them?" Who acts: you, Saracens. A sentence of «Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France» by Alfred John Church, Of Richard of Normandy, with its dependen
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# Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France, Of Richard of Normandy, sentence 6

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Know you not that the whole land is covered with the Saracens, so that as soon as the messenger is parted from us he will be slain by them?"

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**Who acts:** you, Saracens · **What happens:** not know, cover, part, slay · **To what, where:** you, whole land, messenger, man

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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 (you, Saracens), 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:pg75339:24:6
# text = Know you not that the whole land is covered with the Saracens, so that as soon as the messenger is parted from us he will be slain by them?"
1	Know	know	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
2	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Person=2|PronType=Prs	1	obj	_	_
3	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	1	advmod	_	_
4	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	9	mark	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
6	whole	whole	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	amod	_	_
7	land	land	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	nsubj:pass	_	_
8	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	9	aux:pass	_	_
9	covered	cover	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	1	ccomp	_	_
10	with	with	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
11	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
12	Saracens	Saracen	PROPN	NNPS	Number=Plur	9	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	28	punct	_	_
14	so	so	ADV	RB	_	28	advmod	_	_
15	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	28	mark	_	_
16	as	as	ADV	RB	_	17	advmod	_	_
17	soon	soon	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	28	advmod	_	_
18	as	as	SCONJ	IN	_	22	mark	_	_
19	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	20	det	_	_
20	messenger	messenger	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	nsubj:pass	_	_
21	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	22	aux:pass	_	_
22	parted	part	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	17	advcl	_	_
23	from	from	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	_
24	us	we	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs	22	obl	_	_
25	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	28	nsubj	_	_
26	will	will	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	28	aux	_	_
27	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	28	aux:pass	_	_
28	slain	slay	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	1	ccomp	_	_
29	by	by	ADP	IN	_	30	case	_	_
30	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	28	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
31	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	1	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
32	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	1	punct	_	_
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## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **not** **know** | imperative | you *not said here* | you |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **cover** | present · passive |  | the whole land |  |  |  | with the Saracens | vn fill-9.8-1 «NP V NP PP.theme»: subject=Destination with saracen=Theme |
| 3 | **part** | present · passive |  | the messenger |  |  |  | from us | vn separate-23.1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.co-patient»: subject=Patient from we=Co-Patient |
| 4 | **slay** | future · passive | Saracens *= saracen* | man |  |  |  | soon *property* | vn murder-42.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent subject=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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