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# Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France, How King Charles Sent Huon on an Errand, sentence 15

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If they obey, well; but if not, then you shall deal with them by Amaury's counsel."

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**Who acts:** messengers, you · **What happens:** obey, deal

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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 (messengers, you), 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:pg75339:38:15
# text = If they obey, well; but if not, then you shall deal with them by Amaury's counsel."
1	If	if	SCONJ	IN	_	3	mark	_	_
2	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
3	obey	obey	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	14	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	3	punct	_	_
5	well	well	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	3	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	3	punct	_	_
7	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	14	cc	_	_
8	if	if	SCONJ	IN	_	9	mark	_	_
9	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	14	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	9	punct	_	_
11	then	then	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	14	advmod	_	_
12	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	14	nsubj	_	_
13	shall	shall	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	14	aux	_	_
14	deal	deal	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
15	with	with	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
16	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	14	obl	_	_
17	by	by	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
18	Amaury	Amaury	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	20	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	's	's	PART	POS	_	18	case	_	_
20	counsel	counsel	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	14	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	14	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **obey** *a condition, not said to happen* | present | messengers *= messenger* |  |  |  |  | well *property* | vn abide\_by-93.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **deal** | shall | you |  |  |  | then | with messengers *= messenger*; by Amaury's counsel | vn cope-83 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent with they=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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