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title: Confess, therefore, your sins, and pray to God that He have mercy up… — Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of F… · tree and pragmatics
description: Confess, therefore, your sins, and pray to God that He have mercy upon you. Who acts: you, God. 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 39

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Confess, therefore, your sins, and pray to God that He have mercy upon you.

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**Who acts:** you, God · **What happens:** confess, pray, have · **To what, where:** sins, God, mercy

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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 (you, God), 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:pg75339:30:39
# text = Confess, therefore, your sins, and pray to God that He have mercy upon you.
1	Confess	confess	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	3	punct	_	_
3	therefore	therefore	ADV	RB	_	1	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	6	punct	_	_
5	your	your	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	6	nmod:poss	_	_
6	sins	sin	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	1	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	9	punct	_	_
8	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	9	cc	_	_
9	pray	pray	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	1	conj	_	_
10	to	to	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
11	God	God	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	9	obl	_	_
12	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	14	mark	_	_
13	He	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	14	nsubj	_	_
14	have	have	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	9	advcl	_	_
15	mercy	mercy	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	obj	_	_
16	upon	upon	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
17	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Person=2|PronType=Prs	15	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	1	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **confess** | imperative | you *not said here* | your sins |  |  |  | therefore *property* | vn confess-37.10 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **pray** | infinitive | you *not said here* |  | God |  |  |  | vn long-32.2 «NP V S\_INF»: agent=Pivot |
| 3 | **have** | present | God | mercy |  |  |  | upon you | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent mercy=Patient |

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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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