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description: Certainly it were treachery," said the King again; "but do as you will, only mark that I do not consent thereto." Who acts: Sire, treachery, I. A sentence of «Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France» by Alfred John Church, How the Duke Benes Came By His End, with its dependency tree an
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# Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France, How the Duke Benes Came By His End, sentence 88

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Certainly it were treachery," said the King again; "but do as you will, only mark that I do not consent thereto."

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**Who acts:** Sire, treachery, I · **What happens:** be, say, do, not consent · **To what, where:** treachery, mark · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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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 (Sire, treachery, 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:pg75339:4:88
# text = Certainly it were treachery," said the King again; "but do as you will, only mark that I do not consent thereto."
1	Certainly	certainly	ADV	RB	_	4	advmod	_	_
2	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	4	nsubj	_	_
3	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	cop	_	_
4	treachery	treachery	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	4	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	4	punct	_	_
7	said	say	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
9	King	King	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	7	nsubj	_	_
10	again	again	ADV	RB	_	7	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
12	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	13	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	14	cc	_	_
14	do	do	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	7	conj	_	_
15	as	as	SCONJ	IN	_	17	mark	_	_
16	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	17	nsubj	_	_
17	will	will	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	14	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	20	punct	_	_
19	only	only	ADV	RB	_	20	advmod	_	_
20	mark	mark	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	parataxis	_	_
21	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	25	obj	_	_
22	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	25	nsubj	_	_
23	do	do	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	25	aux	_	_
24	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	25	advmod	_	_
25	consent	consent	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	20	acl:relcl	_	_
26	thereto	thereto	ADV	RB	_	25	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	20	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	20	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** | past | Sire | treachery |  |  |  | certainly *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **say** *speech: assert* *in a quote* | past | treachery |  |  |  | again | the King *nsubj*; mark *parataxis* | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 3 | **do** | present | treachery *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 4 | **not** **consent** | present · do-support | I | mark |  |  |  | thereto *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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