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title: And they will also recover our bodies, and will carry them away for… — Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of F… · tree and pragmatics
description: And they will also recover our bodies, and will carry them away for burial in holy places, so that the dogs and wolves shall not devour them." Who acts: sons, dogs. A sentence of «Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France» by Alfred John Church, How Roland Sounded His Horn, with its depe
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# Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France, How Roland Sounded His Horn, sentence 29

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And they will also recover our bodies, and will carry them away for burial in holy places, so that the dogs and wolves shall not devour them."

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**Who acts:** sons, dogs · **What happens:** recover, carry away, not devour · **To what, where:** bodies, sons

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This is a sentence of «Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France» by Alfred John Church, How Roland Sounded His Horn. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (sons, dogs), 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:pg75339:32:29
# text = And they will also recover our bodies, and will carry them away for burial in holy places, so that the dogs and wolves shall not devour them."
1	And	and	CCONJ	CC	_	5	cc	_	_
2	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	5	nsubj	_	_
3	will	will	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	5	aux	_	_
4	also	also	ADV	RB	_	5	advmod	_	_
5	recover	recover	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
6	our	our	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	7	nmod:poss	_	_
7	bodies	body	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
9	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	11	cc	_	_
10	will	will	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	11	aux	_	_
11	carry	carry	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	5	parataxis	_	_
12	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	11	obj	_	_
13	away	away	ADV	RB	_	11	advmod	_	_
14	for	for	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
15	burial	burial	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	obl	_	_
16	in	in	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
17	holy	holy	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	18	amod	_	_
18	places	place	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	15	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	28	punct	_	_
20	so	so	SCONJ	IN	_	28	mark	_	_
21	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	28	mark	_	_
22	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	23	det	_	_
23	dogs	dog	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	28	nsubj	_	_
24	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	25	cc	_	_
25	wolves	wolf	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	23	conj	_	_
26	shall	shall	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	28	aux	_	_
27	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	28	advmod	_	_
28	devour	devour	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	11	conj	_	_
29	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	28	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
30	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
31	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **recover** | future | sons *= son* | our bodies |  |  |  |  | vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent body=Theme |
| 2 | **carry away** | future |  | sons *= son* |  |  |  | for burial in holy places; away *property* | vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Theme |
| 3 | **not** **devour** | shall | the dogs and wolves | sons *= son* |  |  |  |  | vn devour-39.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Patient |

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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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