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title: If only these heathen stand their ground, surely they shall pay dear… — Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of F… · tree and pragmatics
description: If only these heathen stand their ground, surely they shall pay dearly for the death of Roland." " Who acts: heathen, men, Roland. A sentence of «Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France» by Alfred John Church, How Charlemagne Sought Vengeance, with its dependency tree and the pragmatic
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# Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France, How Charlemagne Sought Vengeance, sentence 110

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If only these heathen stand their ground, surely they shall pay dearly for the death of Roland." "

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**Who acts:** heathen, men, Roland · **What happens:** stand, pay, die · **To what, where:** ground

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This is a sentence of «Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France» by Alfred John Church, How Charlemagne Sought Vengeance. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (heathen, men, Roland), 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:pg75339:36:110
# text = If only these heathen stand their ground, surely they shall pay dearly for the death of Roland." "
1	If	if	SCONJ	IN	_	5	mark	_	_
2	only	only	ADV	RB	_	4	advmod	_	_
3	these	this	DET	DT	Number=Plur|PronType=Dem	4	det	_	_
4	heathen	heathen	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	nsubj	_	_
5	stand	stand	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	12	advcl	_	_
6	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	7	nmod:poss	_	_
7	ground	ground	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	5	punct	_	_
9	surely	surely	ADV	RB	_	12	advmod	_	_
10	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	12	nsubj	_	_
11	shall	shall	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	12	aux	_	_
12	pay	pay	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
13	dearly	dearly	ADV	RB	_	12	advmod	_	_
14	for	for	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
15	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
16	death	death	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	obl	_	_
17	of	of	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
18	Roland	Roland	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	16	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	12	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	12	punct	_	_
21	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	12	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **stand** *a condition, not said to happen* | present | this heathen | men's ground |  |  |  |  | vn admire-31.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer ground=Stimulus |
| 2 | **pay** | shall | men *= man* |  |  |  |  | for the death of Roland; dearly, surely *property* | vn pay-68-1 «NP V NP PP.theme»: agent=Agent for death=Theme |
| 3 | **die** |  | Roland |  |  |  |  |  | nom death «event intransitive»: of=agent |

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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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