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title: "Swear that this shall be," said the King; and Ganelon swore that it… — Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of F… · tree and pragmatics
description: "Swear that this shall be," said the King; and Ganelon swore that it should be on his sword Murgleis. Who acts: this, King, Ganelon, army. A sentence of «Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France» by Alfred John Church, The Treason of Ganelon, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics 
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# Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France, The Treason of Ganelon, sentence 115

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"Swear that this shall be," said the King; and Ganelon swore that it should be on his sword Murgleis.

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**Who acts:** this, King, Ganelon, army · **What happens:** swear, be, say · **To what, where:** sword · **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, 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 (this, King, Ganelon, army), 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:pg75339:28:115
# text = "Swear that this shall be," said the King; and Ganelon swore that it should be on his sword Murgleis.
1	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	2	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	Swear	swear	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	9	ccomp	_	_
3	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	6	mark	_	_
4	this	this	PRON	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	6	nsubj	_	_
5	shall	shall	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	6	aux	_	_
6	be	be	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	2	ccomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	2	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	2	punct	_	_
9	said	say	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
10	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
11	King	King	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	9	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	15	punct	_	_
13	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	15	cc	_	_
14	Ganelon	Ganelon	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	15	nsubj	_	_
15	swore	swear	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	9	parataxis	_	_
16	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	22	mark	_	_
17	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	22	nsubj	_	_
18	should	should	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	22	aux	_	_
19	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	22	cop	_	_
20	on	on	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
21	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	22	nmod:poss	_	_
22	sword	sword	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	ccomp	_	_
23	Murgleis	Murgleis	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	22	appos	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	9	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **swear** *in a quote* | infinitive |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn conjecture-29.5 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme |
| 2 | **be** *in a quote* | shall | this |  |  |  |  |  | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 3 | **say** *speech: assert* | past | the King |  |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 4 | **swear** | past | Ganelon |  |  |  |  |  | vn conjecture-29.5 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent |
| 5 | **is** | should | army |  |  | King's sword |  | King *nmod:poss*; Murgleis *appos* | 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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