--- title: Verily, a fool was your Emperor to leave you in these passes, for th… — Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of F… · tree and pragmatics description: Verily, a fool was your Emperor to leave you in these passes, for the honour of fair France has perished to-day, and the great Charles has lost, as it were, the right arm from his body. Who acts: fool, great Charles, Charles. 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The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (fool, great Charles, Charles), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. **Mova's own parse.** This tree may be wrong. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = book:pg75339:31:6 # text = Verily, a fool was your Emperor to leave you in these passes, for the honour of fair France has perished to-day, and the great Charles has lost, as it were, the right arm from his body. 1 Verily verily ADV RB _ 7 advmod _ SpaceAfter=No 2 , , PUNCT , _ 1 punct _ _ 3 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 4 det _ _ 4 fool fool NOUN NN Number=Sing 7 nsubj _ _ 5 was be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 7 cop _ _ 6 your your PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 7 nmod:poss _ _ 7 Emperor emperor NOUN NN Number=Sing 22 nsubj:pass _ _ 8 to to PART TO _ 9 mark _ _ 9 leave leave VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 7 acl _ _ 10 you you PRON PRP Case=Acc|Person=2|PronType=Prs 9 obj _ _ 11 in in ADP IN _ 13 case _ _ 12 these this DET DT Number=Plur|PronType=Dem 13 det _ _ 13 passes pass NOUN NNS Number=Plur 9 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 14 , , PUNCT , _ 17 punct _ _ 15 for for ADP IN _ 17 case _ _ 16 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 17 det _ _ 17 honour honour NOUN NN Number=Sing 9 obl _ _ 18 of of ADP IN _ 20 case _ _ 19 fair fair ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 20 amod _ _ 20 France France PROPN NNP Number=Sing 17 nmod _ _ 21 has have AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 22 aux _ _ 22 perished perish VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 0 root _ _ 23 to to ADP IN _ 25 case _ SpaceAfter=No 24 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 23 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 25 day day NOUN NN Number=Sing 22 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 26 , , PUNCT , _ 32 punct _ _ 27 and and CCONJ CC _ 32 cc _ _ 28 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 30 det _ _ 29 great great ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 30 amod _ _ 30 Charles Charles PROPN NNP Number=Sing 32 nsubj _ _ 31 has have AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 32 aux _ _ 32 lost lose VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part 22 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 33 , , PUNCT , _ 40 punct _ _ 34 as as SCONJ IN _ 40 mark _ _ 35 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 40 nsubj _ _ 36 were be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 40 cop _ SpaceAfter=No 37 , , PUNCT , _ 40 punct _ _ 38 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 40 det _ _ 39 right right ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 40 amod _ _ 40 arm arm NOUN NN Number=Sing 32 obl _ _ 41 from from ADP IN _ 43 case _ _ 42 his his PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 43 nmod:poss _ _ 43 body body NOUN NN Number=Sing 40 nmod _ SpaceAfter=No 44 . . PUNCT . _ 22 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **is a** | past | a fool | your Emperor | | | | your *nmod:poss*; verily *property* | tree rules | | 2 | **leave** | to-infinitive | | you | | this passes | | for the honour of fair France | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent you=Theme in pass=Location | | 3 | **perish** | present · perfect · passive | | your Emperor | | | day | | tree rules | | 4 | **lose** | present · perfect | the great Charles | | | | | | vn succeed-74-3-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 5 | **is a** | past | Charles | the right arm | | France's body | | | tree rules | | 6 | **honour** | | | fair France | | | | | nom honour «state transitive»: of=patient | 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. **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. - ← previous: [sentence 5](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg75339/31/5/) - next →: [sentence 7](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg75339/31/7/) - ↑ back to [The Battle](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg75339/31/)