--- title: We, sons of France, that are in this place, are of a truth condemned… — Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of F… · tree and pragmatics description: We, sons of France, that are in this place, are of a truth condemned to death, neither will the sounding of your horn save us, for the King is far away, and cannot come in time. Who acts: We, that, sons, sounding. 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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 (We, that, sons, sounding), 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:pg75339:32:25 # text = We, sons of France, that are in this place, are of a truth condemned to death, neither will the sounding of your horn save us, for the King is far away, and cannot come in time. 1 We we PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs 3 nsubj _ SpaceAfter=No 2 , , PUNCT , _ 3 punct _ _ 3 sons son NOUN NNS Number=Plur 16 nsubj _ _ 4 of of ADP IN _ 5 case _ _ 5 France France PROPN NNP Number=Sing 3 nmod _ SpaceAfter=No 6 , , PUNCT , _ 11 punct _ _ 7 that that PRON WDT PronType=Rel 11 nsubj _ _ 8 are be AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 11 cop _ _ 9 in in ADP IN _ 11 case _ _ 10 this this DET DT Number=Sing|PronType=Dem 11 det _ _ 11 place place NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 12 , , PUNCT , _ 3 punct _ _ 13 are be AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 16 cop _ _ 14 of of ADP IN _ 16 case _ _ 15 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 16 det _ _ 16 truth truth NOUN NN Number=Sing 0 root _ _ 17 condemned condemn VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 16 acl _ _ 18 to to ADP IN _ 19 case _ _ 19 death death NOUN NN Number=Sing 17 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 20 , , PUNCT , _ 28 punct _ _ 21 neither neither CCONJ CC Polarity=Neg 28 cc:preconj _ _ 22 will will AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 28 aux _ _ 23 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 24 det _ _ 24 sounding sounding NOUN NN Number=Sing 28 nsubj _ _ 25 of of ADP IN _ 27 case _ _ 26 your your PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 27 nmod:poss _ _ 27 horn horn NOUN NN Number=Sing 24 nmod _ _ 28 save save VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 16 parataxis _ _ 29 us we PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs 28 iobj _ SpaceAfter=No 30 , , PUNCT , _ 36 punct _ _ 31 for for ADP IN _ 36 case _ _ 32 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 33 det _ _ 33 King King PROPN NNP Number=Sing 36 nsubj _ _ 34 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 36 cop _ _ 35 far far ADV RB Degree=Pos 36 advmod _ _ 36 away away ADV RB _ 28 advmod _ SpaceAfter=No 37 , , PUNCT , _ 41 punct _ _ 38 and and CCONJ CC _ 41 cc _ _ 39 can can AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 41 aux _ SpaceAfter=No 40 not not PART RB Polarity=Neg 41 advmod _ _ 41 come come VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 28 conj _ _ 42 in in ADP IN _ 43 case _ _ 43 time time NOUN NN Number=Sing 41 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 44 . . PUNCT . _ 16 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **son** | | We | | | | | of France | tree rules | | 2 | **is** | present | that | | | this place | | | tree rules | | 3 | **is** | present | sons and this place | | | | | of a truth | tree rules | | 4 | **condemn** | participle | | a truth *not said here* | | | | to death | vn suspect-81 «NP V PP.theme S\_ING»: agent=Agent | | 5 | **save** | future | the sounding of your horn | | us | | | | vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent we=Theme | | 6 | **is** | present | the King | | | | | away, far *property* | tree rules | | 7 | **not** **come** | can | the sounding of your horn *not said here* | | | | time | | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | 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 24](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg75339/32/24/) - next →: [sentence 26](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg75339/32/26/) - ↑ back to [How Roland Sounded His Horn](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg75339/32/)