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title: Then cried the Admiral, "Friends, if you would have my love, do your… — Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of F… · tree and pragmatics
description: Then cried the Admiral, "Friends, if you would have my love, do your duty, and bring this Tower to the ground. Who acts: you, my. A sentence of «Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France» by Alfred John Church, Of the End of Balan the Admiral, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics 
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# Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France, Of the End of Balan the Admiral, sentence 13

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Then cried the Admiral, "Friends, if you would have my love, do your duty, and bring this Tower to the ground.

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**Who acts:** you, my · **What happens:** cry, have, do, bring, love · **To what, where:** Admiral, love, duty, Tower, ground · **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 the End of Balan the Admiral. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (you, my), 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:pg75339:26:13
# text = Then cried the Admiral, "Friends, if you would have my love, do your duty, and bring this Tower to the ground.
1	Then	then	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	2	advmod	_	_
2	cried	cry	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	Admiral	admiral	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	7	punct	_	_
6	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	7	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	Friends	friend	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
9	if	if	SCONJ	IN	_	12	mark	_	_
10	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	12	nsubj	_	_
11	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	12	aux	_	_
12	have	have	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	2	conj	_	_
13	my	my	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	14	nmod:poss	_	_
14	love	love	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
16	do	do	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	12	conj	_	_
17	your	your	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	18	nmod:poss	_	_
18	duty	duty	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	21	punct	_	_
20	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	21	cc	_	_
21	bring	bring	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	2	conj	_	_
22	this	this	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	23	det	_	_
23	Tower	Tower	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	21	obj	_	_
24	to	to	ADP	IN	_	26	case	_	_
25	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	26	det	_	_
26	ground	ground	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **cry** *speech: express* | past |  | the Admiral and Friends |  |  | then |  | vn manner\_speaking-37.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent admiral=Topic |
| 2 | **have** *a condition, not said to happen, in a quote* | would | you | my love |  |  |  |  | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent love=Patient |
| 3 | **do** *in a quote* | infinitive | you *not said here* | your duty |  |  |  |  | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent duty=Eventuality |
| 4 | **bring** *in a quote* | infinitive |  | this Tower |  | the ground |  |  | vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent tower=Theme to ground=Destination |
| 5 | **love** *in a quote* |  | my |  |  |  |  |  | nom love «feeling transitive»: poss=agent |

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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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