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title: Though Roland may have done him wrong, for your sake he should have… — Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of F… · tree and pragmatics
description: Though Roland may have done him wrong, for your sake he should have suffered him to go unscathed. Who acts: Roland, Ganelon. A sentence of «Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France» by Alfred John Church, Of the Punishment of Ganelon, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every
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# Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France, Of the Punishment of Ganelon, sentence 39

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Though Roland may have done him wrong, for your sake he should have suffered him to go unscathed.

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**Who acts:** Roland, Ganelon · **What happens:** do, suffer, go · **To what, where:** Ganelon, Roland

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This is a sentence of «Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France» by Alfred John Church, Of the Punishment of Ganelon. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Roland, Ganelon), 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:pg75339:37:39
# text = Though Roland may have done him wrong, for your sake he should have suffered him to go unscathed.
1	Though	though	SCONJ	IN	_	5	mark	_	_
2	Roland	Roland	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	_
3	may	may	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	5	aux	_	_
4	have	have	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	5	aux	_	_
5	done	do	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	0	root	_	_
6	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	5	obj	_	_
7	wrong	wrong	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	xcomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
9	for	for	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
10	your	your	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	11	nmod:poss	_	_
11	sake	sake	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	obl	_	_
12	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	15	nsubj	_	_
13	should	should	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	15	aux	_	_
14	have	have	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	15	aux	_	_
15	suffered	suffer	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	5	advcl	_	_
16	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	15	obj	_	_
17	to	to	PART	TO	_	18	mark	_	_
18	go	go	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	15	advcl	_	_
19	unscathed	unscathed	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	18	xcomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **do** | may · perfect | Roland | Ganelon |  |  |  | wrong *property* | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Eventuality |
| 2 | **suffer** | should · perfect | Ganelon | Roland |  |  |  | for your sake | vn admire-31.2 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer he=Stimulus for sake=Attribute |
| 3 | **go** | to-infinitive | Ganelon *not said here* |  |  |  |  | unscathed *property* | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=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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