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title: Verily if he do not fall at my feet and beg for pardon, and renounce… — Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of F… · tree and pragmatics
description: Verily if he do not fall at my feet and beg for pardon, and renounce the faith of Christ, I will tear his crown from his head. Who acts: Emir, I. A sentence of «Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France» by Alfred John Church, How Charlemagne Sought Vengeance, with its dependency tree an
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# Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France, How Charlemagne Sought Vengeance, sentence 72

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Verily if he do not fall at my feet and beg for pardon, and renounce the faith of Christ, I will tear his crown from his head.

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**Who acts:** Emir, I · **What happens:** not fall, beg, renounce, tear, crown · **To what, where:** feet, faith, crown

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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 (Emir, 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:pg75339:36:72
# text = Verily if he do not fall at my feet and beg for pardon, and renounce the faith of Christ, I will tear his crown from his head.
1	Verily	verily	ADV	RB	_	6	advmod	_	_
2	if	if	SCONJ	IN	_	6	mark	_	_
3	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	6	nsubj	_	_
4	do	do	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	6	aux	_	_
5	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	6	advmod	_	_
6	fall	fall	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
7	at	at	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
8	my	my	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	9	nmod:poss	_	_
9	feet	foot	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	obl	_	_
10	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	11	cc	_	_
11	beg	beg	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	6	conj	_	_
12	for	for	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
13	pardon	pardon	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
15	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	16	cc	_	_
16	renounce	renounce	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	6	conj	_	_
17	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
18	faith	faith	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	obj	_	_
19	of	of	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
20	Christ	Christ	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	18	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	24	punct	_	_
22	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	24	nsubj	_	_
23	will	will	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	24	aux	_	_
24	tear	tear	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	16	conj	_	_
25	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	26	nmod:poss	_	_
26	crown	crown	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	obj	_	_
27	from	from	ADP	IN	_	29	case	_	_
28	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	29	nmod:poss	_	_
29	head	head	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
30	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **not** **fall** | present · do-support | Emir |  |  | my feet |  | verily *property* | vn occur-48.3 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme at foot=Location |
| 2 | **beg** *speech: request* | present | Emir *not said here* |  |  |  |  | for pardon | vn beg-58.2-1-1 «NP V PP.Topic»: agent=Agent for pardon=Topic |
| 3 | **renounce** | infinitive | Emir *not said here* | the faith of Christ |  |  |  |  | vn resign-10.11-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent faith=Source |
| 4 | **tear** | future | I | Emir's crown |  |  |  | from Emir's head | vn split-23.2 «NP V NP PP.co-patient»: agent=Agent crown=Patient from head=Co-Patient |
| 5 | **crown** |  | Emir |  |  |  |  |  | nom crown «communication transitive»: poss=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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