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# Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France, The Slaying of Lothair, sentence 78

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Then answered the Duke Aymon, "If the Duke shall do you any wrong, I will help you with all my heart.

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**Who acts:** Duke, I · **What happens:** answer, do, help · **To what, where:** Duke Aymon · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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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 (Duke, 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:pg75339:3:78
# text = Then answered the Duke Aymon, "If the Duke shall do you any wrong, I will help you with all my heart.
1	Then	then	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	2	advmod	_	_
2	answered	answer	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
4	Duke	Duke	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	5	compound	_	_
5	Aymon	Aymon	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	19	punct	_	_
7	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	19	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	If	if	SCONJ	IN	_	12	mark	_	_
9	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
10	Duke	Duke	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	12	nsubj	_	_
11	shall	shall	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	12	aux	_	_
12	do	do	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	19	advcl	_	_
13	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Person=2|PronType=Prs	12	obj	_	_
14	any	any	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	15	det	_	_
15	wrong	wrong	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	12	obl:unmarked	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
17	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	19	nsubj	_	_
18	will	will	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	19	aux	_	_
19	help	help	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	2	conj	_	_
20	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Person=2|PronType=Prs	19	obj	_	_
21	with	with	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	_
22	all	all	DET	PDT	PronType=Tot	24	det:predet	_	_
23	my	my	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	24	nmod:poss	_	_
24	heart	heart	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **answer** *speech: assert* | past |  |  | the Duke Aymon |  | then |  | vn reciprocate-112-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent aymon=Eventuality |
| 2 | **do** *a condition, not said to happen, in a quote* | shall | the Duke | the Duke Aymon *= aymon* |  |  |  | any wrong *obl:unmarked* | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent you=Eventuality |
| 3 | **help** *in a quote* | future | I |  | the Duke Aymon *= aymon* |  |  | with my heart | vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.theme»: agent=Agent you=Beneficiary with heart=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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