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title: Neither your wife nor any woman in the land of your birth shall boas… — Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of F… · tree and pragmatics
description: Neither your wife nor any woman in the land of your birth shall boast that you have taken a penny's worth from King Charles!" Who acts: wife, 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 pragm
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# Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France, How Oliver Was Slain, sentence 41

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Neither your wife nor any woman in the land of your birth shall boast that you have taken a penny's worth from King Charles!"

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**Who acts:** wife, you · **What happens:** boast, take · **To what, where:** worth, Charles

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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 (wife, 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:pg75339:33:41
# text = Neither your wife nor any woman in the land of your birth shall boast that you have taken a penny's worth from King Charles!"
1	Neither	neither	DET	DT	PronType=Neg	3	det	_	_
2	your	your	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	3	nmod:poss	_	_
3	wife	wife	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	nsubj	_	_
4	nor	nor	CCONJ	CC	Polarity=Neg	6	cc	_	_
5	any	any	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	6	det	_	_
6	woman	woman	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	conj	_	_
7	in	in	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
9	land	land	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nmod	_	_
10	of	of	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
11	your	your	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	12	nmod:poss	_	_
12	birth	birth	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	nmod	_	_
13	shall	shall	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	14	aux	_	_
14	boast	boast	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
15	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	18	mark	_	_
16	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	18	nsubj	_	_
17	have	have	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	18	aux	_	_
18	taken	take	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	14	advcl	_	_
19	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	20	det	_	_
20	penny	penny	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	's	's	PART	POS	_	20	case	_	_
22	worth	worth	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	obj	_	_
23	from	from	ADP	IN	_	25	case	_	_
24	King	King	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	25	nmod:desc	_	_
25	Charles	Charles	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	18	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	!	!	PUNCT	.	_	14	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	14	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **boast** *speech: other* | shall | your wife in the land of your birth nor any woman |  |  |  |  |  | vn complain-37.8 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **take** | present · perfect | you | a penny's worth |  | Charles  King |  |  | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP PP.initial\_location»: agent=Agent worth=Theme from charles=Initial\_Location |

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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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