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title: For I will not suffer my son to be buried till the vanquished man be… — Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of F… · tree and pragmatics
description: For I will not suffer my son to be buried till the vanquished man be hanged, if he have not been already slain in the field." Who acts: I. 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 an
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# Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France, How King Charles Sent Huon on an Errand, sentence 86

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For I will not suffer my son to be buried till the vanquished man be hanged, if he have not been already slain in the field."

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**Who acts:** I · **What happens:** not suffer, bury, vanquish, hange, not slay · **To what, where:** son, vanquished man, man, field

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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), 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:pg75339:38:86
# text = For I will not suffer my son to be buried till the vanquished man be hanged, if he have not been already slain in the field."
1	For	for	SCONJ	IN	_	5	mark	_	_
2	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	5	nsubj	_	_
3	will	will	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	5	aux	_	_
4	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	5	advmod	_	_
5	suffer	suffer	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
6	my	my	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	7	nmod:poss	_	_
7	son	son	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obj	_	_
8	to	to	PART	TO	_	10	mark	_	_
9	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	10	aux:pass	_	_
10	buried	bury	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	5	advcl	_	_
11	till	till	SCONJ	IN	_	16	mark	_	_
12	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
13	vanquished	vanquish	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	14	amod	_	_
14	man	man	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	nsubj:pass	_	_
15	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	16	aux:pass	_	_
16	hanged	hange	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	10	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	24	punct	_	_
18	if	if	SCONJ	IN	_	24	mark	_	_
19	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	24	nsubj	_	_
20	have	have	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	24	aux	_	_
21	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	24	advmod	_	_
22	been	be	AUX	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	24	aux:pass	_	_
23	already	already	ADV	RB	_	24	advmod	_	_
24	slain	slay	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	16	conj	_	_
25	in	in	ADP	IN	_	27	case	_	_
26	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	27	det	_	_
27	field	field	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
29	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **not** **suffer** | future | I | my son |  |  |  |  | vn admire-31.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer son=Stimulus |
| 2 | **bury** | to-infinitive · passive | I *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn put-9.1-1 «NP V NP» |
| 3 | **vanquish** | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 4 | **hange** | infinitive · passive |  | the vanquished man |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 5 | **not** **slay** *a condition, not said to happen* | present · perfect · passive |  | man |  | the field |  |  | vn murder-42.1 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient |

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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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