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title: Verily, when I shall have taken it, I will burn with fire this ill d… — Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of F… · tree and pragmatics
description: Verily, when I shall have taken it, I will burn with fire this ill daughter of mine, Floripas." Who acts: I. 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 of every clause.
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# Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France, Of the End of Balan the Admiral, sentence 14

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Verily, when I shall have taken it, I will burn with fire this ill daughter of mine, Floripas."

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**Who acts:** I · **What happens:** take, burn · **To what, where:** Tower

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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 (I), 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:pg75339:26:14
# text = Verily, when I shall have taken it, I will burn with fire this ill daughter of mine, Floripas."
1	Verily	verily	ADV	RB	_	7	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	1	punct	_	_
3	when	when	SCONJ	WRB	_	7	mark	_	_
4	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	7	nsubj	_	_
5	shall	shall	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	7	aux	_	_
6	have	have	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	7	aux	_	_
7	taken	take	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	12	advcl	_	_
8	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	7	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	7	punct	_	_
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	burn	burn	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
13	with	with	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
14	fire	fire	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	obl	_	_
15	this	this	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	17	det	_	_
16	ill	ill	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	17	amod	_	_
17	daughter	daughter	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	parataxis	_	_
18	of	of	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
19	mine	my	PRON	PRP	Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	17	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	21	punct	_	_
21	Floripas	Floripas	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	17	appos	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	12	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	12	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **take** | shall · perfect | I | Tower |  |  |  | verily *property* | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme |
| 2 | **burn** | future | I |  |  |  |  | with fire; this ill daughter of mine *parataxis* | vn light\_emission-43.1 «NP.location V PP.theme»: agent=Location with fire=Theme |

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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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