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title: Of a truth," he said, "if you fail me I will cast away my gods, and… — Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of F… · tree and pragmatics
description: Of a truth," he said, "if you fail me I will cast away my gods, and take upon me the faith of Christ, and make peace with King Charles." Who acts: King, you, I. A sentence of «Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France» by Alfred John Church, How Charlemagne Sought Vengeance, with its dep
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# Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France, How Charlemagne Sought Vengeance, sentence 61

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Of a truth," he said, "if you fail me I will cast away my gods, and take upon me the faith of Christ, and make peace with King Charles."

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**Who acts:** King, you, I · **What happens:** say, fail, cast away, take, make · **To what, where:** me, gods, faith, peace · **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 (King, you, I), 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:pg75339:36:61
# text = Of a truth," he said, "if you fail me I will cast away my gods, and take upon me the faith of Christ, and make peace with King Charles."
1	Of	of	ADP	IN	_	3	case	_	_
2	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	truth	truth	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	3	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	3	punct	_	_
6	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	7	nsubj	_	_
7	said	say	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
9	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	16	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	if	if	SCONJ	IN	_	12	mark	_	_
11	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	12	nsubj	_	_
12	fail	fail	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	16	advcl	_	_
13	me	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	12	obj	_	_
14	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	16	nsubj	_	_
15	will	will	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	16	aux	_	_
16	cast	cast	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	7	ccomp	_	_
17	away	away	ADV	RB	_	16	advmod	_	_
18	my	my	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	19	nmod:poss	_	_
19	gods	god	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	16	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	22	punct	_	_
21	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	22	cc	_	_
22	take	take	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	7	ccomp	_	_
23	upon	upon	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	_
24	me	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	22	obl	_	_
25	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	26	det	_	_
26	faith	faith	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	obj	_	_
27	of	of	ADP	IN	_	28	case	_	_
28	Christ	Christ	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	26	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
29	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	31	punct	_	_
30	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	31	cc	_	_
31	make	make	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	22	conj	_	_
32	peace	peace	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	31	obj	_	_
33	with	with	ADP	IN	_	35	case	_	_
34	King	King	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	35	nmod:desc	_	_
35	Charles	Charles	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	31	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
36	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	22	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
37	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	22	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **say** *speech: assert* *in a quote* | past | King |  |  |  |  | of a truth | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 2 | **fail** *a condition, not said to happen* | present | you | me |  |  |  |  | vn succeed-74-3-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent i=Eventuality |
| 3 | **cast away** | future | I | my gods |  |  |  | away *property* | vn build-26.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent god=Product |
| 4 | **take** | infinitive |  | the faith of Christ |  |  |  | upon me | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent faith=Theme |
| 5 | **make** | infinitive |  | peace |  |  |  | with Charles  King | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset peace=Product |

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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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