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title: And all the army shouted with one voice, "Cursed be he that shall fl… — Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of F… · tree and pragmatics
description: And all the army shouted with one voice, "Cursed be he that shall fly." Who acts: army. A sentence of «Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France» by Alfred John Church, How the Heathen and the French Prepared For Battle, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France, How the Heathen and the French Prepared For Battle, sentence 12

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And all the army shouted with one voice, "Cursed be he that shall fly."

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**Who acts:** army · **What happens:** shout, curse, be, fly · **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, How the Heathen and the French Prepared For Battle. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (army), 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:pg75339:30:12
# text = And all the army shouted with one voice, "Cursed be he that shall fly."
1	And	and	CCONJ	CC	_	5	cc	_	_
2	all	all	DET	PDT	PronType=Tot	4	det:predet	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	army	army	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	_
5	shouted	shout	VERB	VBD	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
6	with	with	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
7	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	8	nummod	_	_
8	voice	voice	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
10	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	11	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	Cursed	curse	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	5	conj	_	_
12	be	be	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	11	xcomp	_	_
13	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	16	nsubj	_	_
14	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	16	nsubj	_	_
15	shall	shall	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	16	aux	_	_
16	fly	fly	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	12	ccomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **shout** *speech: express* | past | all army |  |  |  |  | with one voice | vn manner\_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **curse** *in a quote* | participle | all army *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **be** *in a quote* | infinitive | all army *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 4 | **fly** *in a quote* | shall | army |  |  |  |  | that *nsubj* | vn spatial\_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V»: agent=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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