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title: Curse upon you!" cried the Count; "you have slain my comrades; veril… — Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of F… · tree and pragmatics
description: Curse upon you!" cried the Count; "you have slain my comrades; verily you shall not go scatheless hence." Who acts: Curse, you. A sentence of «Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France» by Alfred John Church, How Oliver Was Slain, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clau
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# Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France, How Oliver Was Slain, sentence 17

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Curse upon you!" cried the Count; "you have slain my comrades; verily you shall not go scatheless hence."

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**Who acts:** Curse, you · **What happens:** cry, slay, not go · **To what, where:** Count, comrades · **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, How Oliver Was Slain. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Curse, you), 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:pg75339:33:17
# text = Curse upon you!" cried the Count; "you have slain my comrades; verily you shall not go scatheless hence."
1	Curse	curse	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nsubj	_	_
2	upon	upon	ADP	IN	_	3	case	_	_
3	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Person=2|PronType=Prs	1	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	!	!	PUNCT	.	_	1	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	1	punct	_	_
6	cried	cry	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	Count	count	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	13	punct	_	_
10	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	13	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	13	nsubj	_	_
12	have	have	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	13	aux	_	_
13	slain	slay	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	6	conj	_	_
14	my	my	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	15	nmod:poss	_	_
15	comrades	comrade	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	13	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	21	punct	_	_
17	verily	verily	ADV	RB	_	21	advmod	_	_
18	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	21	nsubj	_	_
19	shall	shall	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	21	aux	_	_
20	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	21	advmod	_	_
21	go	go	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	6	parataxis	_	_
22	scatheless	scatheless	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	21	xcomp	_	_
23	hence	hence	ADV	RB	_	21	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	21	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	21	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **cry** *speech: express* *in a quote* | past | Curse upon you | the Count |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **slay** | present · perfect | you | my comrades |  |  |  |  | vn murder-42.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent comrade=Patient |
| 3 | **not** **go** | shall | you |  |  |  |  | hence, scatheless, verily *property* | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |

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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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