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title: God bless Duke Richard, for he has borne himself right bravely." — Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of F… · tree and pragmatics
description: God bless Duke Richard, for he has borne himself right bravely." Who acts: God. 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 the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France, Of Richard of Normandy, sentence 68

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God bless Duke Richard, for he has borne himself right bravely."

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**Who acts:** God · **What happens:** bless, bear · **To what, where:** Duke Richard, God

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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), 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:pg75339:24:68
# text = God bless Duke Richard, for he has borne himself right bravely."
1	God	God	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	nsubj	_	_
2	bless	bless	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	Duke	Duke	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	compound	_	_
4	Richard	Richard	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	9	punct	_	_
6	for	for	SCONJ	IN	_	9	mark	_	_
7	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	9	nsubj	_	_
8	has	have	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	9	aux	_	_
9	borne	bear	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	2	advcl	_	_
10	himself	himself	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs|Reflex=Yes	9	obj	_	_
11	right	right	ADV	RB	_	12	advmod	_	_
12	bravely	bravely	ADV	RB	_	9	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **bless** | infinitive | God | Duke Richard |  |  |  |  | vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent richard=Theme |
| 2 | **bear** | present · perfect | God | God |  |  |  | bravely *property* | vn birth-28.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent himself=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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