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title: And for my surety I give my brother Gerard, than whom there is none… — Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of F… · tree and pragmatics
description: And for my surety I give my brother Gerard, than whom there is none nearer of kin to me." Who acts: I, none. 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 every clau
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# Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France, How King Charles Sent Huon on an Errand, sentence 83

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And for my surety I give my brother Gerard, than whom there is none nearer of kin to me."

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**Who acts:** I, none · **What happens:** give, be · **To what, where:** brother

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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 (I, none), 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:pg75339:38:83
# text = And for my surety I give my brother Gerard, than whom there is none nearer of kin to me."
1	And	and	CCONJ	CC	_	6	cc	_	_
2	for	for	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
3	my	my	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	4	nmod:poss	_	_
4	surety	surety	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obl	_	_
5	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	6	nsubj	_	_
6	give	give	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
7	my	my	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	8	nmod:poss	_	_
8	brother	brother	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obj	_	_
9	Gerard	Gerard	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	8	appos	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
11	than	than	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
12	whom	whom	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	14	obj	_	_
13	there	there	PRON	EX	PronType=Dem	14	expl	_	_
14	is	be	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	6	conj	_	_
15	none	none	PRON	NN	PronType=Neg	14	nsubj	_	_
16	nearer	near	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	15	amod	_	_
17	of	of	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
18	kin	kin	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	obl	_	_
19	to	to	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
20	me	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	18	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	6	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **give** | present | I | my brother |  |  |  | for my surety | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP PP.asset»: agent=Agent brother=Theme for surety=Asset |
| 2 | **be** | present | none |  |  | there |  | whom *obj* | vn representation-110.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot whom=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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