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title: Never will I consent to hold aught of this man so long as I can moun… — Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of F… · tree and pragmatics
description: Never will I consent to hold aught of this man so long as I can mount a horse or hold a spear." Who acts: I. 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 pragmatics of every clause.
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# Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France, The Slaying of Lothair, sentence 65

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Never will I consent to hold aught of this man so long as I can mount a horse or hold a spear."

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**Who acts:** I · **What happens:** not consent, hold, mount · **To what, where:** aught, horse, spear

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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), 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:pg75339:3:65
# text = Never will I consent to hold aught of this man so long as I can mount a horse or hold a spear."
1	Never	never	ADV	RB	PronType=Neg	4	advmod	_	_
2	will	will	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	4	aux	_	_
3	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	4	nsubj	_	_
4	consent	consent	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
5	to	to	PART	TO	_	6	mark	_	_
6	hold	hold	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	4	xcomp	_	_
7	aught	aught	PRON	NN	PronType=Ind	6	obj	_	_
8	of	of	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
9	this	this	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	10	det	_	_
10	man	man	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	nmod	_	_
11	so	so	ADV	RB	_	12	advmod	_	_
12	long	long	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	6	advmod	_	_
13	as	as	SCONJ	IN	_	16	mark	_	_
14	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	16	nsubj	_	_
15	can	can	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	16	aux	_	_
16	mount	mount	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	6	advcl	_	_
17	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
18	horse	horse	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	obj	_	_
19	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	20	cc	_	_
20	hold	hold	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	16	conj	_	_
21	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	22	det	_	_
22	spear	spear	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **not** **consent** | future | I |  |  |  |  |  | vn acquiesce-95.1-1-1 «NP V S\_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Theme |
| 2 | **hold** | to-infinitive | I *not said here* | aught of this man |  |  |  | long *property* | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent aught=Theme |
| 3 | **mount** | can | I | a horse |  |  |  |  | vn establish-55.5-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent horse=Patient |
| 4 | **hold** | infinitive | I *not said here* | a spear |  |  |  |  | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent spear=Theme |

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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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