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title: The King answered, "Nevertheless, if the Duke have done this thing,… — Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of F… · tree and pragmatics
description: The King answered, "Nevertheless, if the Duke have done this thing, he shall die." Who acts: King, Duke. 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 94

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The King answered, "Nevertheless, if the Duke have done this thing, he shall die."

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**Who acts:** King, Duke · **What happens:** answer, do, die · **To what, where:** thing · **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 (King, Duke), 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:pg75339:3:94
# text = The King answered, "Nevertheless, if the Duke have done this thing, he shall die."
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	King	King	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
3	answered	answer	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	6	punct	_	_
5	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	6	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	Nevertheless	nevertheless	ADV	RB	_	3	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
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	have	have	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	12	aux	_	_
12	done	do	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	3	ccomp	_	_
13	this	this	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	14	det	_	_
14	thing	thing	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	_
16	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	18	nsubj	_	_
17	shall	shall	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	18	aux	_	_
18	die	die	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	3	parataxis	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	18	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	18	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 King |  |  |  |  | nevertheless *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **do** *a condition, not said to happen, in a quote* | infinitive · perfect | the Duke | this thing |  |  |  |  | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent thing=Eventuality |
| 3 | **die** *in a quote* | shall | King |  |  |  |  |  | vn calibratable\_cos-45.6.1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute |

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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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