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title: And if any kinsman of his say me nay, then will I give him the lie w… — Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of F… · tree and pragmatics
description: And if any kinsman of his say me nay, then will I give him the lie with the edge of the sword." Who acts: kinsman, I. 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 clause
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# Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France, Of the Punishment of Ganelon, sentence 42

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And if any kinsman of his say me nay, then will I give him the lie with the edge of the sword."

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**Who acts:** kinsman, I · **What happens:** say, give · **To what, where:** me, lie, kinsman · **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, 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 (kinsman, 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:pg75339:37:42
# text = And if any kinsman of his say me nay, then will I give him the lie with the edge of the sword."
1	And	and	CCONJ	CC	_	14	cc	_	_
2	if	if	SCONJ	IN	_	7	mark	_	_
3	any	any	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	4	det	_	_
4	kinsman	kinsman	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	nsubj	_	_
5	of	of	SCONJ	IN	_	7	mark	_	_
6	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	7	nmod:poss	_	_
7	say	say	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	14	advcl	_	_
8	me	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	7	obj	_	_
9	nay	nay	INTJ	UH	_	7	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	7	punct	_	_
11	then	then	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	14	advmod	_	_
12	will	will	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	14	aux	_	_
13	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	14	nsubj	_	_
14	give	give	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
15	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	14	iobj	_	_
16	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
17	lie	lie	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	obj	_	_
18	with	with	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
19	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	20	det	_	_
20	edge	edge	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	nmod	_	_
21	of	of	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
22	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	23	det	_	_
23	sword	sword	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	14	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	14	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **say** *speech: assert* *a condition, not said to happen* | infinitive | any kinsman | me |  |  |  |  | vn pronounce-29.3.1 «NP V NP NP»: agent=Agent i=Theme nay=Manner |
| 2 | **give** | future | I | the lie | kinsman |  | then | with the edge of the sword | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent he=Recipient lie=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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