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title: Tis from him you will hear whether you will have peace or no." "Let… — Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of F… · tree and pragmatics
description: Tis from him you will hear whether you will have peace or no." "Let him speak," said the King, "and we will listen." Who acts: Tis, you, King, we. 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 pra
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# Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France, The Treason of Ganelon, sentence 39

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Tis from him you will hear whether you will have peace or no." "Let him speak," said the King, "and we will listen."

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**Who acts:** Tis, you, King, we · **What happens:** hear, have, let, speak, say, listen · **To what, where:** peace, King · **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 (Tis, you, King, we), 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:pg75339:28:39
# text = Tis from him you will hear whether you will have peace or no." "Let him speak," said the King, "and we will listen."
1	Tis	Tis	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	6	nsubj	_	_
2	from	from	ADP	IN	_	3	case	_	_
3	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	1	nmod	_	_
4	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	6	nsubj	_	_
5	will	will	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	6	aux	_	_
6	hear	hear	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
7	whether	whether	SCONJ	IN	_	10	mark	_	_
8	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	10	nsubj	_	_
9	will	will	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	10	aux	_	_
10	have	have	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	21	advcl	_	_
11	peace	peace	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obj	_	_
12	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	13	cc	_	_
13	no.	no.	NOUN	NN	Abbr=Yes|Number=Sing	11	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	10	punct	_	_
15	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	16	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	Let	let	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	21	ccomp	_	_
17	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	16	obj	_	_
18	speak	speak	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	16	xcomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	16	punct	_	_
21	said	say	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	6	parataxis	_	_
22	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	23	det	_	_
23	King	King	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	21	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	21	punct	_	_
25	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	21	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	29	cc	_	_
27	we	we	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs	29	nsubj	_	_
28	will	will	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	29	aux	_	_
29	listen	listen	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	6	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
30	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
31	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	6	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **hear** | future | Tis from King |  |  |  |  | you *nsubj* | vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus |
| 2 | **have** | future | you | peace or no. |  |  |  |  | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent peace=Patient |
| 3 | **let** | infinitive |  | King |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 4 | **speak** *speech: other* | infinitive | King *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn talk-37.5 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 5 | **say** *speech: assert* *in a quote* | past | the King |  |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 6 | **listen** | future | we |  |  |  |  |  | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent |

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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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