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# Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France, The Treason of Ganelon, sentence 109

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I do not deny that they will be destroyed, but, on the other hand, the men of France will receive great damage.

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**Who acts:** I, men · **What happens:** not deny, destroy, receive · **To what, where:** lords, great damage, other hand

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This is a sentence of «Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France» by Alfred John Church, The Treason of Ganelon. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (I, men), 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:pg75339:28:109
# text = I do not deny that they will be destroyed, but, on the other hand, the men of France will receive great damage.
1	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	4	nsubj	_	_
2	do	do	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	aux	_	_
3	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	4	advmod	_	_
4	deny	deny	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
5	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	9	mark	_	_
6	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	9	nsubj:pass	_	_
7	will	will	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	9	aux	_	_
8	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	9	aux:pass	_	_
9	destroyed	destroy	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	4	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	23	punct	_	_
11	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	23	cc	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
13	on	on	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
14	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
15	other	other	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	16	amod	_	_
16	hand	hand	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
18	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	19	det	_	_
19	men	man	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	23	nsubj	_	_
20	of	of	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
21	France	France	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	19	nmod	_	_
22	will	will	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	23	aux	_	_
23	receive	receive	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	4	conj	_	_
24	great	great	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	25	amod	_	_
25	damage	damage	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **not** **deny** | present · do-support | I |  |  |  |  |  | vn conjecture-29.5 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **destroy** | future · passive |  | lords *= lord* |  |  |  |  | vn destroy-44 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient |
| 3 | **receive** | future | the men of France | great damage |  | the other hand |  |  | vn admit-64.3-1 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent damage=Theme on hand=Location |

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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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