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title: Now I give you ten mules' burden of gold of Arabia, and every year y… — Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of F… · tree and pragmatics
description: Now I give you ten mules' burden of gold of Arabia, and every year you shall have the like. Who acts: I, you, ten mules. 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 of every clause.
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# Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France, The Treason of Ganelon, sentence 142

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Now I give you ten mules' burden of gold of Arabia, and every year you shall have the like.

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**Who acts:** I, you, ten mules · **What happens:** give, have, burden · **To what, where:** burden, you, like, gold

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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, you, ten mules), 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:pg75339:28:142
# text = Now I give you ten mules' burden of gold of Arabia, and every year you shall have the like.
1	Now	now	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	3	advmod	_	_
2	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
3	give	give	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Person=2|PronType=Prs	3	iobj	_	_
5	ten	ten	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	6	nummod	_	_
6	mules	mule	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	8	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	'	's	PART	POS	_	6	case	_	_
8	burden	burden	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obj	_	_
9	of	of	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
10	gold	gold	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	nmod	_	_
11	of	of	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
12	Arabia	Arabia	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	10	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	19	punct	_	_
14	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	19	cc	_	_
15	every	every	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	16	det	_	_
16	year	year	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	obl:unmarked	_	_
17	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	19	nsubj	_	_
18	shall	shall	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	19	aux	_	_
19	have	have	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	3	conj	_	_
20	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	21	det	_	_
21	like	like	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	19	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **give** | present | I | ten mules's burden of gold of Arabia | you |  | now |  | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent you=Recipient burden=Theme |
| 2 | **have** | shall | you | the like |  |  | year |  | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent like=Patient |
| 3 | **burden** |  | ten mules | gold of Arabia |  |  |  |  | nom burden «cognition transitive»: poss=agent of=patient |

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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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