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# Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France, The Treason of Ganelon, sentence 48

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If this please you not, then he will lay siege to Saragossa, will take you captive and carry you to Aachen, where he has his Imperial Throne.

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**Who acts:** you, this, half · **What happens:** not lay, take, carry, have · **To what, where:** siege, you, Aachen, Imperial Throne

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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 (you, this, half), 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:pg75339:28:48
# text = If this please you not, then he will lay siege to Saragossa, will take you captive and carry you to Aachen, where he has his Imperial Throne.
1	If	if	SCONJ	IN	_	2	mark	_	_
2	this	this	PRON	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	16	nsubj	_	_
3	please	please	INTJ	UH	_	10	discourse	_	_
4	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	10	nsubj	_	_
5	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	10	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
7	then	then	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	10	advmod	_	_
8	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	10	nsubj	_	_
9	will	will	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	10	aux	_	_
10	lay	lay	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	2	parataxis	_	_
11	siege	siege	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obj	_	_
12	to	to	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
13	Saragossa	Saragossa	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	11	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	2	punct	_	_
15	will	will	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	16	aux	_	_
16	take	take	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
17	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Person=2|PronType=Prs	16	obj	_	_
18	captive	captive	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	16	obj	_	_
19	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	20	cc	_	_
20	carry	carry	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	16	conj	_	_
21	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Person=2|PronType=Prs	20	obj	_	_
22	to	to	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
23	Aachen	Aachen	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	20	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	27	punct	_	_
25	where	where	ADV	WRB	PronType=Rel	27	advmod	_	_
26	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	27	nsubj	_	_
27	has	have	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	23	acl:relcl	_	_
28	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	30	nmod:poss	_	_
29	Imperial	imperial	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	30	amod	_	_
30	Throne	throne	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	27	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
31	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	16	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **not** **lay** | future | you | siege |  |  | then | to Saragossa; half *nsubj* | vn create-26.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent siege=Result |
| 2 | **take** | future | this | you |  |  |  |  | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP ADVP»: agent=Instrument you=Theme captive=Destination |
| 3 | **carry** | present | this *not said here* | you | Aachen |  |  |  | vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent you=Theme to aachen=Destination |
| 4 | **have** | present | half | half's Imperial Throne |  |  |  |  | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent throne=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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