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# Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France, Of the End of Balan the Admiral, sentence 65

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When the Admiral was brought to Charles, the King said, "Will you forsake your false gods, who indeed have profited you nothing, and accept the true faith?

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**Who acts:** King, you · **What happens:** bring, say, forsake, profit, accept · **To what, where:** Admiral, Charles, false gods, true faith · **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 (King, 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:pg75339:26:65
# text = When the Admiral was brought to Charles, the King said, "Will you forsake your false gods, who indeed have profited you nothing, and accept the true faith?
1	When	when	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	5	advmod	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	Admiral	Admiral	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	5	nsubj:pass	_	_
4	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	aux:pass	_	_
5	brought	bring	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	29	advcl	_	_
6	to	to	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
7	Charles	Charles	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	5	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
9	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
10	King	King	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	11	nsubj	_	_
11	said	say	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	7	parataxis	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
13	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	16	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	Will	will	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	16	aux	_	_
15	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	16	nsubj	_	_
16	forsake	forsake	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	11	ccomp	_	_
17	your	your	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	19	nmod:poss	_	_
18	false	false	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	19	amod	_	_
19	gods	god	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	24	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	24	punct	_	_
21	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	24	nsubj:pass	_	_
22	indeed	indeed	ADV	RB	_	24	advmod	_	_
23	have	have	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	24	aux	_	_
24	profited	profit	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	16	ccomp	_	_
25	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Person=2|PronType=Prs	24	obj	_	_
26	nothing	nothing	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Neg	24	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	29	punct	_	_
28	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	29	cc	_	_
29	accept	accept	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
30	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	32	det	_	_
31	true	true	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	32	amod	_	_
32	faith	faith	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	29	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
33	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	29	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **bring** | past · passive |  | the Admiral | Charles |  |  |  | vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: subject=Theme to charles=Destination |
| 2 | **say** *speech: ask* | past | the King |  |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 3 | **forsake** *in a quote* | future | you |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 4 | **profit** *in a quote* | present · perfect · passive |  | your false gods |  |  |  | who *nsubj:pass*; you *obj*; nothing *obj*; indeed *property* | tree rules |
| 5 | **accept** *in a quote* | imperative | you *not said here* | the true faith |  |  |  |  | vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent faith=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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