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title: I know not what to do, save that I will put off this crown, which I… — Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of F… · tree and pragmatics
description: I know not what to do, save that I will put off this crown, which I am not worthy to bear." Who acts: I, crown. 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 92

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I know not what to do, save that I will put off this crown, which I am not worthy to bear."

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**Who acts:** I, crown · **What happens:** not know, save, put off, not be, bear · **To what, where:** crown · **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 (I, crown), 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:pg75339:24:92
# text = I know not what to do, save that I will put off this crown, which I am not worthy to bear."
1	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	2	nsubj	_	_
2	know	know	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	2	advmod	_	_
4	what	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	8	obj	_	_
5	to	to	PART	TO	_	6	mark	_	_
6	do	do	AUX	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	8	aux	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	8	punct	_	_
8	save	save	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	2	ccomp	_	_
9	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	12	mark	_	_
10	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	12	nsubj	_	_
11	will	will	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	12	aux	_	_
12	put	put	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	8	advcl	_	_
13	off	off	ADP	RP	_	12	compound:prt	_	_
14	this	this	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	15	det	_	_
15	crown	crown	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	21	punct	_	_
17	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	21	nsubj	_	_
18	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	21	nsubj	_	_
19	am	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	21	cop	_	_
20	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	21	advmod	_	_
21	worthy	worthy	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	15	parataxis	_	_
22	to	to	PART	TO	_	23	mark	_	_
23	bear	bear	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	21	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **not** **know** | present | I |  |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V how S\_INF»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus |
| 2 | **save** | infinitive · do-support |  |  |  |  |  | what *obj* | vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent what=Theme |
| 3 | **put off** | future | I | this crown |  |  |  |  | vn invest-13.5.4-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent crown=Goal |
| 4 | **not** **is** | present | this crown |  |  |  |  | I *nsubj*; worthy *property* | tree rules |
| 5 | **bear** | to-infinitive | this crown *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn admire-31.2 «NP V that S»: agent=Experiencer |

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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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