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description: And though this be our last battle, I know well that King Charles will take ample vengeance for us." Who acts: this, I, Charles. 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 eve
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# Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France, How Archbishop Turpin Died, sentence 47

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And though this be our last battle, I know well that King Charles will take ample vengeance for us."

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**Who acts:** this, I, Charles · **What happens:** be, know, take · **To what, where:** last battle, ample vengeance · **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 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 (this, I, Charles), 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:pg75339:34:47
# text = And though this be our last battle, I know well that King Charles will take ample vengeance for us."
1	And	and	CCONJ	CC	_	10	cc	_	_
2	though	though	SCONJ	IN	_	7	mark	_	_
3	this	this	PRON	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	7	nsubj	_	_
4	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	7	cop	_	_
5	our	our	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	7	nmod:poss	_	_
6	last	last	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	amod	_	_
7	battle	battle	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	7	punct	_	_
9	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	10	nsubj	_	_
10	know	know	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
11	well	well	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	10	advmod	_	_
12	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	16	mark	_	_
13	King	King	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	14	nmod:desc	_	_
14	Charles	Charles	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	16	nsubj	_	_
15	will	will	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	16	aux	_	_
16	take	take	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	10	ccomp	_	_
17	ample	ample	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	18	amod	_	_
18	vengeance	vengeance	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	obj	_	_
19	for	for	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
20	us	we	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs	16	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	10	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	10	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** | infinitive | this | our last battle |  |  |  | our *nmod:poss* | tree rules |
| 2 | **know** | present | I |  |  |  |  | well *property* | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus |
| 3 | **take** | future | Charles  King | ample vengeance |  |  |  | for us | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP PP.beneficiary»: agent=Agent vengeance=Theme for we=Beneficiary |

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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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