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title: The King is very wroth and not without cause, with your uncle Duke B… — Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of F… · tree and pragmatics
description: The King is very wroth and not without cause, with your uncle Duke Benes, and will wage war against him, in which matter he will of a certainty ask your help. Who acts: King, your. A sentence of «Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France» by Alfred John Church, How the Duke Benes Came By
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# Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France, How the Duke Benes Came By His End, sentence 2

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The King is very wroth and not without cause, with your uncle Duke Benes, and will wage war against him, in which matter he will of a certainty ask your help.

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**Who acts:** King, your · **What happens:** be, wage, matter, ask, help · **To what, where:** war, help

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This is a sentence of «Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France» by Alfred John Church, How the Duke Benes Came By His End. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (King, your), 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:pg75339:4:2
# text = The King is very wroth and not without cause, with your uncle Duke Benes, and will wage war against him, in which matter he will of a certainty ask your help.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	King	King	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	_
3	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	5	cop	_	_
4	very	very	ADV	RB	_	5	advmod	_	_
5	wroth	wroth	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
6	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	9	cc	_	_
7	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	9	advmod	_	_
8	without	without	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
9	cause	cause	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
11	with	with	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
12	your	your	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	13	nmod:poss	_	_
13	uncle	uncle	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	nmod:desc	_	_
14	Duke	Duke	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	5	conj	_	_
15	Benes	Benes	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	14	flat	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	19	punct	_	_
17	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	19	cc	_	_
18	will	will	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	19	aux	_	_
19	wage	wage	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	5	parataxis	_	_
20	war	war	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	obj	_	_
21	against	against	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
22	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	19	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	26	punct	_	_
24	in	in	ADP	IN	_	25	case	_	_
25	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	26	nsubj	_	_
26	matter	matter	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	19	parataxis	_	_
27	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	32	nsubj	_	_
28	will	will	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	32	aux	_	_
29	of	of	ADP	IN	_	31	case	_	_
30	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	31	det	_	_
31	certainty	certainty	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	32	obl	_	_
32	ask	ask	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	26	conj	_	_
33	your	your	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	34	nmod:poss	_	_
34	help	help	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	32	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
35	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | present | the King |  |  |  |  | cause *conj*; Duke  your uncle *conj*; wroth *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **wage** | future |  | war |  |  |  | against Duke | tree rules |
| 3 | **matter** | present |  |  |  |  |  | which *nsubj* | vn matter-91 «NP V»: agent=Stimulus |
| 4 | **ask** *speech: ask* | future | King | your help |  |  |  | of a certainty | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent help=Recipient |
| 5 | **help** |  | your |  |  |  |  |  | nom help «act transitive»: poss=agent |

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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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