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title: But if he will not do this thing, then I will lay siege to his city… — Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of F… · tree and pragmatics
description: But if he will not do this thing, then I will lay siege to his city of Saragossa, and when I shall have taken it I will bring him by force to my city of Aachen, and will pass judgment on him and he shall end his days in sorrow and shame. Who acts: Ganelon, I. A sentence of «Stories of Charlemagne an
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# Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France, How Ganelon Went on an Errand to King Marsilas, sentence 137

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But if he will not do this thing, then I will lay siege to his city of Saragossa, and when I shall have taken it I will bring him by force to my city of Aachen, and will pass judgment on him and he shall end his days in sorrow and shame.

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**Who acts:** Ganelon, I · **What happens:** not do, lay, take, bring, pass, end · **To what, where:** thing, siege, Ganelon, city, judgment, sorrow

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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 (Ganelon, 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:pg75339:27:137
# text = But if he will not do this thing, then I will lay siege to his city of Saragossa, and when I shall have taken it I will bring him by force to my city of Aachen, and will pass judgment on him and he shall end his days in sorrow and shame.
1	But	but	CCONJ	CC	_	13	cc	_	_
2	if	if	SCONJ	IN	_	6	mark	_	_
3	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	6	nsubj	_	_
4	will	will	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	6	aux	_	_
5	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	6	advmod	_	_
6	do	do	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	13	advcl	_	_
7	this	this	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	8	det	_	_
8	thing	thing	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	6	punct	_	_
10	then	then	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	13	advmod	_	_
11	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	13	nsubj	_	_
12	will	will	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	13	aux	_	_
13	lay	lay	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
14	siege	siege	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	obj	_	_
15	to	to	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
16	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	17	nmod:poss	_	_
17	city	city	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	obl	_	_
18	of	of	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
19	Saragossa	Saragossa	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	17	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	26	punct	_	_
21	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	26	cc	_	_
22	when	when	SCONJ	WRB	_	26	mark	_	_
23	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	26	nsubj	_	_
24	shall	shall	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	26	aux	_	_
25	have	have	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	26	aux	_	_
26	taken	take	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	13	conj	_	_
27	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	26	obj	_	_
28	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	30	nsubj	_	_
29	will	will	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	30	aux	_	_
30	bring	bring	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	26	ccomp	_	_
31	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	30	obj	_	_
32	by	by	ADP	IN	_	33	case	_	_
33	force	force	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	30	obl	_	_
34	to	to	ADP	IN	_	36	case	_	_
35	my	my	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	36	nmod:poss	_	_
36	city	city	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	30	obl	_	_
37	of	of	ADP	IN	_	38	case	_	_
38	Aachen	Aachen	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	36	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
39	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	42	punct	_	_
40	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	42	cc	_	_
41	will	will	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	42	aux	_	_
42	pass	pass	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	13	conj	_	_
43	judgment	judgment	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	42	obj	_	_
44	on	on	ADP	IN	_	45	case	_	_
45	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	42	obl	_	_
46	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	49	cc	_	_
47	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	49	nsubj	_	_
48	shall	shall	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	49	aux	_	_
49	end	end	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	13	conj	_	_
50	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	51	nmod:poss	_	_
51	days	day	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	49	obj	_	_
52	in	in	ADP	IN	_	53	case	_	_
53	sorrow	sorrow	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	49	obl	_	_
54	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	55	cc	_	_
55	shame	shame	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	53	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
56	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	13	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **not** **do** *a condition, not said to happen* | future | Ganelon | this thing |  |  |  |  | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent thing=Eventuality |
| 2 | **lay** | future | I | siege |  |  | then | to Ganelon's city of Saragossa | vn create-26.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent siege=Result |
| 3 | **take** | shall · perfect | I | siege |  |  |  |  | vn characterize-29.2 «NP V NP to be ADJ»: agent=Agent it=Theme clause=Attribute |
| 4 | **bring** | future | I | Ganelon |  | my city of Aachen |  | by force | vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent he=Theme to city=Destination |
| 5 | **pass** | future | I *not said here* | judgment |  |  |  | on Ganelon | vn throw-17.1-1 «NP V NP PP.destinations»: agent=Agent judgment=Theme on he=Destination |
| 6 | **end** | shall | Ganelon |  |  | sorrow and shame | day |  | vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality |

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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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