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title: Come, then, let us smite these heathen." — Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of F… · tree and pragmatics
description: Come, then, let us smite these heathen." Who acts: you, us. 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 clause.
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# Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France, How Oliver Was Slain, sentence 8

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Come, then, let us smite these heathen."

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**Who acts:** you, us · **What happens:** come, let, smite · **To what, where:** us, heathen

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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 (you, us), 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:pg75339:33:8
# text = Come, then, let us smite these heathen."
1	Come	come	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	3	punct	_	_
3	then	then	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	1	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	5	punct	_	_
5	let	let	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	1	parataxis	_	_
6	us	we	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs	5	obj	_	_
7	smite	smite	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	5	xcomp	_	_
8	these	this	DET	DT	Number=Plur|PronType=Dem	9	det	_	_
9	heathen	heathen	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	1	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	1	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **come** | imperative | you *not said here* |  |  |  | then |  | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **let** | infinitive |  | us |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **smite** | infinitive | us *not said here* | this heathen |  |  |  |  | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus heathen=Experiencer |

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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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