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title: Nevertheless, the lands may yet be yours if only we can be rid of th… — Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of F… · tree and pragmatics
description: Nevertheless, the lands may yet be yours if only we can be rid of the Princes Huon and Gerard. Who acts: lands, we. A sentence of «Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France» by Alfred John Church, How King Charles Sent Huon on an Errand, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of eve
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# Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France, How King Charles Sent Huon on an Errand, sentence 22

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Nevertheless, the lands may yet be yours if only we can be rid of the Princes Huon and Gerard.

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**Who acts:** lands, we · **What happens:** be · **To what, where:** yours

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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 (lands, we), 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:pg75339:38:22
# text = Nevertheless, the lands may yet be yours if only we can be rid of the Princes Huon and Gerard.
1	Nevertheless	nevertheless	ADV	RB	_	8	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	1	punct	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	lands	land	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	8	nsubj	_	_
5	may	may	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	8	aux	_	_
6	yet	yet	ADV	RB	_	8	advmod	_	_
7	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	8	cop	_	_
8	yours	your	PRON	PRP	Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	0	root	_	_
9	if	if	SCONJ	IN	_	14	mark	_	_
10	only	only	ADV	RB	_	14	advmod	_	_
11	we	we	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs	14	nsubj	_	_
12	can	can	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	14	aux	_	_
13	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	14	cop	_	_
14	rid	rid	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	advcl	_	_
15	of	of	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
16	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
17	Princes	Prince	PROPN	NNPS	Number=Plur	14	obl	_	_
18	Huon	Huon	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	17	nmod	_	_
19	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	20	cc	_	_
20	Gerard	Gerard	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	18	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	8	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** | may | the lands | yours |  |  | yet | nevertheless *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **is** *a condition, not said to happen* | can | we |  |  |  |  | of the Princes  Huon and Gerard; rid *property* | tree rules |

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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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