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title: Tis a wrong even to ask us," said they; "cursed be he who shall not… — Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of F… · tree and pragmatics
description: Tis a wrong even to ask us," said they; "cursed be he who shall not strike with his whole heart!" Who acts: son, Tis. 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 pragmatics of every cl
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# Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France, How Charlemagne Sought Vengeance, sentence 186

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Tis a wrong even to ask us," said they; "cursed be he who shall not strike with his whole heart!"

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**Who acts:** son, Tis · **What happens:** ask, say, curse, be, not strike · **To what, where:** us, Tis · **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 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 (son, Tis), 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:pg75339:36:186
# text = Tis a wrong even to ask us," said they; "cursed be he who shall not strike with his whole heart!"
1	Tis	Tis	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
2	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	wrong	wrong	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
4	even	even	ADV	RB	_	6	advmod	_	_
5	to	to	PART	TO	_	6	mark	_	_
6	ask	ask	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	3	parataxis	_	_
7	us	we	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs	6	iobj	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	6	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	3	punct	_	_
10	said	say	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	parataxis	_	_
11	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	10	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	14	punct	_	_
13	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	14	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	cursed	curse	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	3	conj	_	_
15	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	16	cop	_	_
16	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	20	nsubj	_	_
17	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	20	nsubj	_	_
18	shall	shall	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	20	aux	_	_
19	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	20	advmod	_	_
20	strike	strike	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	14	ccomp	_	_
21	with	with	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	_
22	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	24	nmod:poss	_	_
23	whole	whole	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	24	amod	_	_
24	heart	heart	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	!	!	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **ask** *speech: ask* | to-infinitive |  |  | us |  |  |  | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent we=Recipient |
| 2 | **say** *speech: assert* *in a quote* | past | son |  |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **curse** | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 4 | **is a** | infinitive |  | Tis |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 5 | **not** **strike** | shall | Tis |  |  |  |  | with Tis's whole heart; who *nsubj* | vn sound\_emission-43.2 «NP.location V PP.theme»: agent=Location with heart=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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