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title: Nor would he abate one jot from this sentence, for all that Huon beg… — Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of F… · tree and pragmatics
description: Nor would he abate one jot from this sentence, for all that Huon begged him to have mercy, and the Duke Naymes with the other Barons were urgent with him that he should not do this great injustice. Who acts: Nor, Huon, Duke Naymes, Naymes. A sentence of «Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers o
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# Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France, How King Charles Sent Huon on an Errand, sentence 108

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Nor would he abate one jot from this sentence, for all that Huon begged him to have mercy, and the Duke Naymes with the other Barons were urgent with him that he should not do this great injustice.

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**Who acts:** Nor, Huon, Duke Naymes, Naymes · **What happens:** abate, beg, have, be, not do · **To what, where:** one jot, sentence, Nor, mercy, great injustice

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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 (Nor, Huon, Duke Naymes, Naymes), 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:pg75339:38:108
# text = Nor would he abate one jot from this sentence, for all that Huon begged him to have mercy, and the Duke Naymes with the other Barons were urgent with him that he should not do this great injustice.
1	Nor	Nor	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
2	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	4	aux	_	_
3	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	4	nsubj	_	_
4	abate	abate	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
5	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	6	nummod	_	_
6	jot	jot	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obj	_	_
7	from	from	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
8	this	this	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	9	det	_	_
9	sentence	sentence	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
11	for	for	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
12	all	all	DET	PDT	PronType=Tot	13	det:predet	_	_
13	that	that	PRON	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	15	obl	_	_
14	Huon	Huon	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	15	nsubj	_	_
15	begged	beg	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	parataxis	_	_
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	have	have	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	15	xcomp	_	_
19	mercy	mercy	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	30	punct	_	_
21	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	30	cc	_	_
22	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	24	det	_	_
23	Duke	Duke	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	24	compound	_	_
24	Naymes	Naymes	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	30	nsubj	_	_
25	with	with	ADP	IN	_	28	case	_	_
26	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	28	det	_	_
27	other	other	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	28	amod	_	_
28	Barons	Baron	PROPN	NNPS	Number=Plur	24	nmod	_	_
29	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	30	cop	_	_
30	urgent	urgent	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	15	conj	_	_
31	with	with	ADP	IN	_	32	case	_	_
32	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	30	obl	_	_
33	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	37	mark	_	_
34	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	37	nsubj	_	_
35	should	should	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	37	aux	_	_
36	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	37	advmod	_	_
37	do	do	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	30	advcl	_	_
38	this	this	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	40	det	_	_
39	great	great	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	40	amod	_	_
40	injustice	injustice	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	37	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
41	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **abate** | would | Nor | one jot |  | this sentence |  |  | vn other\_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent jot=Patient |
| 2 | **beg** *speech: request* | past | Huon |  | Nor |  |  | for that | vn beg-58.2-1-1 «NP V NP S\_INF»: agent=Agent he=Recipient clause=Topic |
| 3 | **have** *not said to happen* | to-infinitive | Huon *not said here* | mercy |  |  |  |  | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent mercy=Patient |
| 4 | **is** | past | the Duke Naymes with the other Barons |  |  |  |  | with Nor; urgent *property* | tree rules |
| 5 | **not** **do** | should | Naymes | this great injustice |  |  |  |  | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent injustice=Eventuality |

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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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