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title: Let no one think of flight," he said; "never shall these heathen mak… — Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of F… · tree and pragmatics
description: Let no one think of flight," he said; "never shall these heathen make songs upon us. ' Who acts: you, victory, these. 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 85

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Let no one think of flight," he said; "never shall these heathen make songs upon us. '

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**Who acts:** you, victory, these · **What happens:** let, say, make · **To what, where:** one think, songs · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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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 (you, victory, these), 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:pg75339:31:85
# text = Let no one think of flight," he said; "never shall these heathen make songs upon us. '
1	Let	let	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
2	no	no	DET	DT	PronType=Neg	4	det	_	_
3	one	one	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	compound	_	_
4	think	think	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	obj	_	_
5	of	of	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
6	flight	flight	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	6	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	6	punct	_	_
9	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	10	nsubj	_	_
10	said	say	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	acl:relcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	_
12	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	14	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	never	never	ADV	RB	PronType=Neg	14	advmod	_	_
14	shall	shall	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	17	aux	_	_
15	these	this	PRON	DT	Number=Plur|PronType=Dem	17	nsubj	_	_
16	heathen	heathen	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	17	advmod	_	_
17	make	make	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	1	parataxis	_	_
18	songs	song	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	17	obj	_	_
19	upon	upon	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
20	us	we	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs	17	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	1	punct	_	_
22	'	'	PUNCT	''	_	1	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **let** | imperative | you *not said here* | no one think |  |  |  |  | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent think=Theme |
| 2 | **say** *speech: assert* *in a quote* | past | victory | no one think *not said here* |  |  |  | of flight | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent think=Topic |
| 3 | **make** | shall | these | songs |  |  |  | upon us | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset song=Product |

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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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