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title: And tell him that if he will return to France, you will follow him,… — Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of F… · tree and pragmatics
description: And tell him that if he will return to France, you will follow him, and there, on the Feast of St. Michael, will be converted to the Christian Faith, and will be his vassal in all honour. Who acts: you, Charles. A sentence of «Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France» by Alfred John Chu
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# Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France, How Ganelon Went on an Errand to King Marsilas, sentence 11

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And tell him that if he will return to France, you will follow him, and there, on the Feast of St. Michael, will be converted to the Christian Faith, and will be his vassal in all honour.

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**Who acts:** you, Charles · **What happens:** tell, return, follow, convert, be · **To what, where:** Charles, France, Feast, honour · **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, How Ganelon Went on an Errand to King Marsilas. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (you, Charles), 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:pg75339:27:11
# text = And tell him that if he will return to France, you will follow him, and there, on the Feast of St. Michael, will be converted to the Christian Faith, and will be his vassal in all honour.
1	And	and	CCONJ	CC	_	2	cc	_	_
2	tell	tell	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	iobj	_	_
4	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	8	mark	_	_
5	if	if	SCONJ	IN	_	8	mark	_	_
6	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	8	nsubj	_	_
7	will	will	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	8	aux	_	_
8	return	return	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	2	ccomp	_	_
9	to	to	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
10	France	France	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	8	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
12	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	14	nsubj	_	_
13	will	will	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	14	aux	_	_
14	follow	follow	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	2	conj	_	_
15	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	14	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	_
17	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	18	cc	_	_
18	there	there	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	14	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	22	punct	_	_
20	on	on	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
21	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	22	det	_	_
22	Feast	feast	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	parataxis	_	_
23	of	of	ADP	IN	_	25	case	_	_
24	St.	St.	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	25	nmod:desc	_	_
25	Michael	Michael	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	22	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	29	punct	_	_
27	will	will	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	29	aux	_	_
28	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	29	aux:pass	_	_
29	converted	convert	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	22	acl	_	_
30	to	to	ADP	IN	_	33	case	_	_
31	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	33	det	_	_
32	Christian	Christian	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	33	amod	_	_
33	Faith	Faith	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	29	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
34	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	39	punct	_	_
35	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	39	cc	_	_
36	will	will	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	39	aux	_	_
37	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	39	cop	_	_
38	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	39	nmod:poss	_	_
39	vassal	vassal	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	2	conj	_	_
40	in	in	ADP	IN	_	42	case	_	_
41	all	all	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	42	det	_	_
42	honour	honour	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	39	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
43	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **tell** *speech: assert* | imperative | you *not said here* |  | Charles |  |  |  | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP what S»: agent=Agent he=Recipient clause=Topic |
| 2 | **return** *a condition, not said to happen* | future | Charles |  | France |  |  |  | vn convert-26.6.2-1 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Patient to france=Result |
| 3 | **follow** | future | you | Charles |  | there |  | the Feast of Michael  St. *parataxis* | vn chase-51.6 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Theme |
| 4 | **convert** | future · passive |  | the Feast of Michael  St. *not said here* |  |  |  | to the Christian Faith *result* | vn turn-26.6.1-1 «NP V PP.result»: to faith=Result |
| 5 | **is** | future | you *not said here* |  |  | all honour |  | Charles *nmod:poss*; vassal *property* | tree rules |

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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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