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title: But if you fail in this thing, you shall surely be hanged, your wife… — Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of F… · tree and pragmatics
description: But if you fail in this thing, you shall surely be hanged, your wife burned with fire, and all your house destroyed.'" Who acts: you, house. A sentence of «Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France» by Alfred John Church, The Slaying of Lothair, with its dependency tree and the pragmatic
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# Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France, The Slaying of Lothair, sentence 54

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But if you fail in this thing, you shall surely be hanged, your wife burned with fire, and all your house destroyed.'"

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**Who acts:** you, house · **What happens:** fail, hange, burn, destroy · **To what, where:** thing, you, wife

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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 (you, house), 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:pg75339:3:54
# text = But if you fail in this thing, you shall surely be hanged, your wife burned with fire, and all your house destroyed.'"
1	But	but	CCONJ	CC	_	13	cc	_	_
2	if	if	SCONJ	IN	_	4	mark	_	_
3	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	4	nsubj	_	_
4	fail	fail	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	13	advcl	_	_
5	in	in	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
6	this	this	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	7	det	_	_
7	thing	thing	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	4	punct	_	_
9	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	13	nsubj:pass	_	_
10	shall	shall	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	13	aux	_	_
11	surely	surely	ADV	RB	_	13	advmod	_	_
12	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	13	aux:pass	_	_
13	hanged	hange	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
15	your	your	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	16	nmod:poss	_	_
16	wife	wife	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	obl	_	_
17	burned	burn	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	16	acl	_	_
18	with	with	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
19	fire	fire	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	25	punct	_	_
21	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	25	cc	_	_
22	all	all	DET	PDT	PronType=Tot	24	det:predet	_	_
23	your	your	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	24	nmod:poss	_	_
24	house	house	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	nsubj	_	_
25	destroyed	destroy	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	13	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	13	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	'	'	PUNCT	''	_	13	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	13	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **fail** *a condition, not said to happen* | present | you |  |  | this thing |  |  | vn succeed-74-3-1-1 «NP V PP.eventuality S\_ING»: agent=Agent in thing=Eventuality |
| 2 | **hange** | shall · passive |  | you |  |  |  | your wife *obl*; surely *property* | tree rules |
| 3 | **burn** | participle |  | your wife *not said here* |  |  |  | with fire | vn light\_emission-43.1 «NP.location V PP.theme»: agent=Location with fire=Theme |
| 4 | **destroy** | past | your house |  |  |  |  |  | vn destroy-44 «NP V NP»: 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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