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title: Have I not three brothers, princes all of them, that will help me ag… — Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of F… · tree and pragmatics
description: Have I not three brothers, princes all of them, that will help me against the King, and four nephews also, sons of Aymon, that are stout and valiant men?" Who acts: I, that, four nephews. A sentence of «Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France» by Alfred John Church, The Slaying of Loth
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# Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France, The Slaying of Lothair, sentence 28

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Have I not three brothers, princes all of them, that will help me against the King, and four nephews also, sons of Aymon, that are stout and valiant men?"

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**Who acts:** I, that, four nephews · **What happens:** have, not brother, help, be, man · **To what, where:** me

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This is a sentence of «Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France» by Alfred John Church, The Slaying of Lothair. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (I, that, four nephews), 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:pg75339:3:28
# text = Have I not three brothers, princes all of them, that will help me against the King, and four nephews also, sons of Aymon, that are stout and valiant men?"
1	Have	have	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
2	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	5	nsubj	_	_
3	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	5	advmod	_	_
4	three	three	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	5	nummod	_	_
5	brothers	brother	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	1	xcomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	7	punct	_	_
7	princes	prince	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	conj	_	_
8	all	all	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	7	appos	_	_
9	of	of	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
10	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	8	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
12	that	that	PRON	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	14	nsubj	_	_
13	will	will	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	14	aux	_	_
14	help	help	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	5	parataxis	_	_
15	me	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	14	obj	_	_
16	against	against	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
17	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
18	King	King	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	14	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	34	punct	_	_
20	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	34	cc	_	_
21	four	four	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	22	nummod	_	_
22	nephews	nephew	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	34	nsubj	_	_
23	also	also	ADV	RB	_	25	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	23	punct	_	_
25	sons	son	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	34	compound	_	_
26	of	of	ADP	IN	_	27	case	_	_
27	Aymon	Aymon	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	25	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	31	punct	_	_
29	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	31	nsubj	_	_
30	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	31	cop	_	_
31	stout	stout	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	25	parataxis	_	_
32	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	33	cc	_	_
33	valiant	valiant	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	31	conj	_	_
34	men	man	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	1	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
35	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	34	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
36	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	34	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **have** | present |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **not** **brother** |  | I |  |  |  |  | princes *conj* | tree rules |
| 3 | **help** | future | that |  | me |  |  | against the King | vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent i=Beneficiary |
| 4 | **is** | present | that |  |  |  |  | stout *property* | tree rules |
| 5 | **be** |  | that *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 6 | **man** |  | four nephews |  |  |  |  |  | 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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