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title: And if we die, as well may be, there is this of which I can assure y… — Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of F… · tree and pragmatics
description: And if we die, as well may be, there is this of which I can assure you: the gates of Paradise shall be open to you. Who acts: we, gates. 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 claus
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# Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France, The Battle, sentence 87

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And if we die, as well may be, there is this of which I can assure you: the gates of Paradise shall be open to you.

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**Who acts:** we, gates · **What happens:** die, be · **To what, where:** you

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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 (we, gates), 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:pg75339:31:87
# text = And if we die, as well may be, there is this of which I can assure you: the gates of Paradise shall be open to you.
1	And	and	CCONJ	CC	_	9	cc	_	_
2	if	if	SCONJ	IN	_	4	mark	_	_
3	we	we	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs	4	nsubj	_	_
4	die	die	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	9	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	4	punct	_	_
6	as	as	ADV	RB	ExtPos=ADV	4	advmod	_	_
7	well	well	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	6	fixed	_	_
8	may	may	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	9	aux	_	_
9	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	18	cop	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
11	there	there	PRON	EX	PronType=Dem	12	expl	_	_
12	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	18	cop	_	_
13	this	this	PRON	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	15	nsubj	_	_
14	of	of	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
15	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	18	nsubj	_	_
16	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	18	nsubj	_	_
17	can	can	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	18	aux	_	_
18	assure	assure	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
19	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Person=2|PronType=Prs	18	iobj	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	18	punct	_	_
21	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	22	det	_	_
22	gates	gate	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	27	nsubj	_	_
23	of	of	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	_
24	Paradise	paradise	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	nmod	_	_
25	shall	shall	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	27	aux	_	_
26	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	27	cop	_	_
27	open	open	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	18	parataxis	_	_
28	to	to	ADP	IN	_	29	case	_	_
29	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Person=2|PronType=Prs	27	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
30	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	18	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **die** *a condition, not said to happen* | present | we |  |  |  |  |  | vn calibratable\_cos-45.6.1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute |
| 2 | **is** | can · infinitive |  |  | you |  |  | which  this *nsubj*; I *nsubj*; assure *property* | tree rules |
| 3 | **is** | shall | the gates of Paradise |  | you |  |  | open *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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