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title: But as for us, we must do our duty as good knights, for verily this… — Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of F… · tree and pragmatics
description: But as for us, we must do our duty as good knights, for verily this battle will be no child's play. Who acts: us, battle. 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 80

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But as for us, we must do our duty as good knights, for verily this battle will be no child's play.

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**Who acts:** us, battle · **What happens:** do, be · **To what, where:** duty

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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 (us, battle), 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:pg75339:31:80
# text = But as for us, we must do our duty as good knights, for verily this battle will be no child's play.
1	But	but	CCONJ	CC	_	8	cc	_	_
2	as	as	ADV	RB	_	4	advmod	_	_
3	for	for	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
4	us	we	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs	8	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	4	punct	_	_
6	we	we	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs	8	nsubj	_	_
7	must	must	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	8	aux	_	_
8	do	do	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
9	our	our	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	10	nmod:poss	_	_
10	duty	duty	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obj	_	_
11	as	as	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
12	good	good	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	13	amod	_	_
13	knights	knight	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	8	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	24	punct	_	_
15	for	for	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	_
16	verily	verily	ADV	RB	_	24	advmod	_	_
17	this	this	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	18	det	_	_
18	battle	battle	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	nsubj	_	_
19	will	will	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	24	aux	_	_
20	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	24	cop	_	_
21	no	no	DET	DT	PronType=Neg	22	det	_	_
22	child	child	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	's	's	PART	POS	_	22	case	_	_
24	play	play	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	8	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **do** | must | us | our duty |  |  |  | as good knights; we *nsubj* | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent duty=Eventuality |
| 2 | **is** | future | this battle |  |  |  |  | for no child's play; no child *nmod:poss*; verily *property* | 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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