--- title: Blancandrin spake again: "By this right hand and by this beard I swe… — Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of F… · tree and pragmatics description: Blancandrin spake again: "By this right hand and by this beard I swear that the end of the matter will be this: You will see the French raise their camp in all haste and go back to their own land. Who acts: chiefs, end, You, Blancandrin spake. 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The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (chiefs, end, You, Blancandrin spake), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. **Mova's own parse.** This tree may be wrong. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = book:pg75339:27:16 # text = Blancandrin spake again: "By this right hand and by this beard I swear that the end of the matter will be this: You will see the French raise their camp in all haste and go back to their own land. 1 Blancandrin Blancandrin PROPN NNP Number=Sing 2 compound _ _ 2 spake speak NOUN NN Number=Sing 31 nsubj _ _ 3 again again ADV RB _ 2 advmod _ SpaceAfter=No 4 : : PUNCT : _ 9 punct _ _ 5 " " PUNCT `` _ 9 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 6 By by ADP IN _ 9 case _ _ 7 this this DET DT Number=Sing|PronType=Dem 9 det _ _ 8 right right ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 9 amod _ _ 9 hand hand NOUN NN Number=Sing 2 appos _ _ 10 and and CCONJ CC _ 13 cc _ _ 11 by by ADP IN _ 13 case _ _ 12 this this DET DT Number=Sing|PronType=Dem 13 det _ _ 13 beard beard NOUN NN Number=Sing 9 conj _ _ 14 I I PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 15 nsubj _ _ 15 swear swear VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 13 acl:relcl _ _ 16 that that SCONJ IN _ 24 mark _ _ 17 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 18 det _ _ 18 end end NOUN NN Number=Sing 24 nsubj _ _ 19 of of ADP IN _ 21 case _ _ 20 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 21 det _ _ 21 matter matter NOUN NN Number=Sing 18 nmod _ _ 22 will will AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 24 aux _ _ 23 be be AUX VB VerbForm=Inf 24 cop _ _ 24 this this PRON DT Number=Sing|PronType=Dem 15 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 25 : : PUNCT : _ 28 punct _ _ 26 You you PRON PRP Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs 28 nsubj _ _ 27 will will AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 28 aux _ _ 28 see see VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 2 conj _ _ 29 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 30 det _ _ 30 French French ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 28 obj _ _ 31 raise raise VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 32 their their PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 33 nmod:poss _ _ 33 camp camp NOUN NN Number=Sing 31 obj _ _ 34 in in ADP IN _ 36 case _ _ 35 all all DET DT PronType=Tot 36 det _ _ 36 haste haste NOUN NN Number=Sing 31 obl _ _ 37 and and CCONJ CC _ 38 cc _ _ 38 go go VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 31 conj _ _ 39 back back ADV RB _ 38 advmod _ _ 40 to to ADP IN _ 43 case _ _ 41 their their PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 43 nmod:poss _ _ 42 own own ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 43 amod _ _ 43 land land NOUN NN Number=Sing 38 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 44 . . PUNCT . _ 31 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **swear** *in a quote* | present | all chiefs of heathenry *= chief* | this beard *not said here* | | | | | vn conjecture-29.5 «NP V NP to be NP»: agent=Agent beard=Eventuality | | 2 | **is a** *in a quote* | future | the end of the matter | this | | | | | tree rules | | 3 | **see** *in a quote* | future | You | the French | | | | | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer french=Stimulus | | 4 | **raise** *in a quote* | present | Blancandrin spake | hand's camp | | all haste | | | vn put\_direction-9.4 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent camp=Theme in haste=Destination | | 5 | **go back** *in a quote* | infinitive | Blancandrin spake *not said here* | | | | | to hand's own land *result* | vn convert-26.6.2 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Patient to land=Result | 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. **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. - ← previous: [sentence 15](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg75339/27/15/) - next →: [sentence 17](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg75339/27/17/) - ↑ back to [How Ganelon Went on an Errand to King Marsilas](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg75339/27/)