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title: But let us keep together; never will I leave you; we two will stand… — Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of F… · tree and pragmatics
description: But let us keep together; never will I leave you; we two will stand against these heathen dogs. Who acts: you, us, I, we. A sentence of «Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France» by Alfred John Church, How Archbishop Turpin Died, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clau
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# Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France, How Archbishop Turpin Died, sentence 43

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But let us keep together; never will I leave you; we two will stand against these heathen dogs.

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**Who acts:** you, us, I, we · **What happens:** let, keep together, not leave, stand · **To what, where:** us, you

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This is a sentence of «Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France» by Alfred John Church, How Archbishop Turpin Died. 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, I, we), 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:pg75339:34:43
# text = But let us keep together; never will I leave you; we two will stand against these heathen dogs.
1	But	but	CCONJ	CC	_	2	cc	_	_
2	let	let	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	us	we	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs	2	obj	_	_
4	keep	keep	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	2	xcomp	_	_
5	together	together	ADV	RB	_	4	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
7	never	never	ADV	RB	PronType=Neg	10	advmod	_	_
8	will	will	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	10	aux	_	_
9	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	10	nsubj	_	_
10	leave	leave	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	4	conj	_	_
11	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Person=2|PronType=Prs	10	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	16	punct	_	_
13	we	we	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs	16	nsubj	_	_
14	two	two	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	16	nsubj	_	_
15	will	will	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	16	aux	_	_
16	stand	stand	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	2	conj	_	_
17	against	against	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
18	these	this	DET	DT	Number=Plur|PronType=Dem	20	det	_	_
19	heathen	heathen	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	compound	_	_
20	dogs	dog	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	16	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **let** | imperative | you *not said here* | us |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **keep together** | infinitive | us *not said here* |  |  |  |  | together *property* | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **not** **leave** | future | I | you |  |  |  |  | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent you=Theme |
| 4 | **stand** | future | we |  |  |  |  | against this heathen dogs; two *nsubj* | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent against dog=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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