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title: Do you follow me, and when you have passed the first gate throw off… — Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of F… · tree and pragmatics
description: Do you follow me, and when you have passed the first gate throw off your cloaks and smite with your swords. Who acts: you. A sentence of «Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France» by Alfred John Church, How the Bridge Mantryble Was Won, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of eve
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# Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France, How the Bridge Mantryble Was Won, sentence 4

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Do you follow me, and when you have passed the first gate throw off your cloaks and smite with your swords.

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**Who acts:** you · **What happens:** follow, pass, throw off, smite · **To what, where:** me, first gate, cloaks

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This is a sentence of «Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France» by Alfred John Church, How the Bridge Mantryble Was Won. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (you), 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:pg75339:25:4
# text = Do you follow me, and when you have passed the first gate throw off your cloaks and smite with your swords.
1	Do	do	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	3	aux	_	_
2	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
3	follow	follow	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
4	me	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	3	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
6	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	10	cc	_	_
7	when	when	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	10	advmod	_	_
8	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	10	nsubj	_	_
9	have	have	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	10	aux	_	_
10	passed	pass	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	3	advcl	_	_
11	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
12	first	first	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos|NumForm=Word|NumType=Ord	13	amod	_	_
13	gate	gate	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obj	_	_
14	throw	throw	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	3	parataxis	_	_
15	off	off	ADP	RP	_	14	compound:prt	_	_
16	your	your	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	17	nmod:poss	_	_
17	cloaks	cloak	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	14	obj	_	_
18	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	19	cc	_	_
19	smite	smite	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	14	conj	_	_
20	with	with	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
21	your	your	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	22	nmod:poss	_	_
22	swords	sword	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	19	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **follow** | present · do-support | you | me |  |  |  |  | vn chase-51.6 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent i=Theme |
| 2 | **pass** | present · perfect | you | the first gate |  |  |  |  | vn escape-51.1-1-3 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme gate=Trajectory |
| 3 | **throw off** | infinitive |  | your cloaks |  |  |  |  | vn throw-17.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent cloak=Theme |
| 4 | **smite** | infinitive |  |  |  |  |  | with your swords | vn hit-18.1 «NP V NP PP.instrument»: agent=Agent with sword=Instrument |

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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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