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title: It will cost you but little to take vengeance for the multitudes who… — Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of F… · tree and pragmatics
description: It will cost you but little to take vengeance for the multitudes whom they have slain. Who acts: half, men. A sentence of «Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France» by Alfred John Church, The Battle, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France, The Battle, sentence 73

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It will cost you but little to take vengeance for the multitudes whom they have slain.

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**Who acts:** half, men · **What happens:** cost, take, have · **To what, where:** you, vengeance, multitudes

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This is a sentence of «Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France» by Alfred John Church, The Battle. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (half, men), 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:pg75339:31:73
# text = It will cost you but little to take vengeance for the multitudes whom they have slain.
1	It	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
2	will	will	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	3	aux	_	_
3	cost	cost	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
4	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Person=2|PronType=Prs	3	iobj	_	_
5	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	8	cc	_	_
6	little	little	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	advcl	_	_
7	to	to	PART	TO	_	8	mark	_	_
8	take	take	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	3	conj	_	_
9	vengeance	vengeance	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obj	_	_
10	for	for	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
11	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
12	multitudes	multitude	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	8	obl	_	_
13	whom	whom	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	15	obj	_	_
14	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	15	nsubj	_	_
15	have	have	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	12	acl:relcl	_	_
16	slain	slain	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **cost** | future | half |  | you |  |  |  | vn cost-54.2 «NP V NP.value»: agent=Theme you=Value |
| 2 | **take** | to-infinitive | half *not said here* | vengeance |  |  |  | for the multitudes | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP PP.beneficiary»: agent=Agent vengeance=Theme for multitude=Beneficiary |
| 3 | **have** | present | men *= man* | the multitudes |  |  |  | slain *obj* | tree rules |

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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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