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title: Think upon these two things only--how to deal a straight blow and to… — Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of F… · tree and pragmatics
description: Think upon these two things only--how to deal a straight blow and to take it. Who acts: you. 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 62

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Think upon these two things only--how to deal a straight blow and to take it.

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**Who acts:** you · **What happens:** think, deal, take · **To what, where:** straight blow, whit

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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), 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:pg75339:30:62
# text = Think upon these two things only--how to deal a straight blow and to take it.
1	Think	think	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
2	upon	upon	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
3	these	this	DET	DT	Number=Plur|PronType=Dem	5	det	_	_
4	two	two	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	5	nummod	_	_
5	things	thing	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	1	obl	_	_
6	only	only	ADV	RB	_	1	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	--	--	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	how	how	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	10	advmod	_	_
9	to	to	PART	TO	_	10	mark	_	_
10	deal	deal	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	1	parataxis	_	_
11	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
12	straight	straight	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	13	amod	_	_
13	blow	blow	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obj	_	_
14	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	16	cc	_	_
15	to	to	PART	TO	_	16	mark	_	_
16	take	take	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	10	conj	_	_
17	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	16	obj	_	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 | **think** *speech: other* | imperative | you *not said here* |  |  |  |  | upon this two things | vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **deal** | to-infinitive |  | a straight blow |  |  |  |  | vn give-13.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent blow=Theme |
| 3 | **take** | to-infinitive |  | whit |  |  |  |  | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=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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