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title: And now all the reward that I ask is that you suffer me to smite dow… — Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of F… · tree and pragmatics
description: And now all the reward that I ask is that you suffer me to smite down this Roland. Who acts: I, reward. A sentence of «Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France» by Alfred John Church, Of the Plot Against Roland, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France, Of the Plot Against Roland, sentence 66

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And now all the reward that I ask is that you suffer me to smite down this Roland.

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**Who acts:** I, reward · **What happens:** ask, be, smite down · **To what, where:** reward, Roland

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This is a sentence of «Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France» by Alfred John Church, Of the Plot Against Roland. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (I, reward), 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:pg75339:29:66
# text = And now all the reward that I ask is that you suffer me to smite down this Roland.
1	And	and	CCONJ	CC	_	12	cc	_	_
2	now	now	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	3	advmod	_	_
3	all	all	DET	PDT	PronType=Tot	5	det:predet	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	reward	reward	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	nsubj	_	_
6	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	8	obj	_	_
7	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	8	nsubj	_	_
8	ask	ask	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	5	acl:relcl	_	_
9	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	12	cop	_	_
10	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	12	mark	_	_
11	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	12	nsubj	_	_
12	suffer	suffer	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
13	me	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	12	obj	_	_
14	to	to	PART	TO	_	15	mark	_	_
15	smite	smite	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	12	advcl	_	_
16	down	down	ADP	RP	_	15	compound:prt	_	_
17	this	this	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	18	det	_	_
18	Roland	Roland	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	15	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	12	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **ask** *speech: ask* | present | I | all reward |  |  |  |  | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent that=Recipient |
| 2 | **is** | present | all reward |  |  |  |  | you *nsubj*; me *obj*; suffer *property* | tree rules |
| 3 | **smite down** | to-infinitive | all reward *not said here* | this Roland |  |  |  |  | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus roland=Experiencer |

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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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