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title: Then said Huon, "Take this, false traitor!" and he slew the man with… — Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of F… · tree and pragmatics
description: Then said Huon, "Take this, false traitor!" and he slew the man with one stroke, but for repentance or confession there was no space of time. Who acts: Huon, stroke, space. A sentence of «Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France» by Alfred John Church, How King Charles Sent Huon on an E
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# Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France, How King Charles Sent Huon on an Errand, sentence 104

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Then said Huon, "Take this, false traitor!" and he slew the man with one stroke, but for repentance or confession there was no space of time.

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**Who acts:** Huon, stroke, space · **What happens:** say, take, slay, be · **To what, where:** this, man · **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 King Charles Sent Huon on an Errand. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Huon, stroke, space), 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:pg75339:38:104
# text = Then said Huon, "Take this, false traitor!" and he slew the man with one stroke, but for repentance or confession there was no space of time.
1	Then	then	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	2	advmod	_	_
2	said	say	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	Huon	Huon	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	6	punct	_	_
5	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	6	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	Take	take	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	2	ccomp	_	_
7	this	this	PRON	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	6	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
9	false	false	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	10	amod	_	_
10	traitor	traitor	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	!	!	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	6	punct	_	_
13	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	15	cc	_	_
14	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	15	nsubj	_	_
15	slew	slay	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	2	conj	_	_
16	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
17	man	man	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	obj	_	_
18	with	with	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
19	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	20	nummod	_	_
20	stroke	stroke	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	28	punct	_	_
22	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	28	cc	_	_
23	for	for	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	_
24	repentance	repentance	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	28	obl	_	_
25	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	26	cc	_	_
26	confession	confession	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	conj	_	_
27	there	there	PRON	EX	PronType=Dem	28	expl	_	_
28	was	be	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	2	parataxis	_	_
29	no	no	DET	DT	PronType=Neg	30	det	_	_
30	space	space	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	28	nsubj	_	_
31	of	of	ADP	IN	_	32	case	_	_
32	time	time	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	30	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
33	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **say** *speech: express* | past | Huon |  |  |  | then |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 2 | **take** *in a quote* | infinitive |  | this |  |  |  | false traitor *obl* | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent this=Theme |
| 3 | **slay** | past | stroke | the man |  |  |  | with one stroke | vn murder-42.1 «NP V NP PP.instrument»: agent=Agent man=Patient with stroke=Instrument |
| 4 | **be** | past | no space of time |  |  | there |  | for repentance or confession | vn exist-47.1 «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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