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title: Let the dead lie as they are, but take good care that no beast of th… — Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of F… · tree and pragmatics
description: Let the dead lie as they are, but take good care that no beast of the field touch them, nor any follower of the camp. Who acts: you, warriors, beast. A sentence of «Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France» by Alfred John Church, How Charlemagne Sought Vengeance, with its dependency tre
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# Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France, How Charlemagne Sought Vengeance, sentence 13

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Let the dead lie as they are, but take good care that no beast of the field touch them, nor any follower of the camp.

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**Who acts:** you, warriors, beast · **What happens:** let, be, take, touch · **To what, where:** dead lie, good care, warriors

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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 (you, warriors, beast), 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:pg75339:36:13
# text = Let the dead lie as they are, but take good care that no beast of the field touch them, nor any follower of the camp.
1	Let	let	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
3	dead	dead	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	amod	_	_
4	lie	lie	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	obj	_	_
5	as	as	SCONJ	IN	_	7	mark	_	_
6	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	7	nsubj	_	_
7	are	be	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	1	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
9	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	10	cc	_	_
10	take	take	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	1	parataxis	_	_
11	good	good	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	12	amod	_	_
12	care	care	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obj	_	_
13	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	19	mark	_	_
14	no	no	DET	DT	PronType=Neg	15	det	_	_
15	beast	beast	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	nsubj	_	_
16	of	of	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
17	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
18	field	field	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	nmod	_	_
19	touch	touch	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	10	advcl	_	_
20	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	19	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	24	punct	_	_
22	nor	nor	CCONJ	CC	Polarity=Neg	24	cc	_	_
23	any	any	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	24	det	_	_
24	follower	follower	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	obl	_	_
25	of	of	ADP	IN	_	27	case	_	_
26	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	27	det	_	_
27	camp	camp	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	1	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* | the dead lie |  |  |  |  | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent lie=Theme |
| 2 | **does** | present | warriors *= warrior* |  |  |  |  |  | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 3 | **take** | present |  | good care |  |  |  |  | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent care=Theme |
| 4 | **touch** | infinitive | no beast of the field | warriors *= warrior* |  |  |  | any follower of the camp *obl* | vn contiguous\_location-47.8-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme they=Co-Theme |

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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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