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title: If all the people from the east to the west should drink thereof, it… — Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of F… · tree and pragmatics
description: If all the people from the east to the west should drink thereof, it would not fail." Who acts: people, west. A sentence of «Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France» by Alfred John Church, Of the End of the False Duke Macaire, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause
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# Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France, Of the End of the False Duke Macaire, sentence 27

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If all the people from the east to the west should drink thereof, it would not fail."

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**Who acts:** people, west · **What happens:** drink, not fail

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This is a sentence of «Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France» by Alfred John Church, Of the End of the False Duke Macaire. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (people, west), 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:pg75339:40:27
# text = If all the people from the east to the west should drink thereof, it would not fail."
1	If	if	SCONJ	IN	_	12	mark	_	_
2	all	all	DET	PDT	PronType=Tot	4	det:predet	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	people	people	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	12	nsubj	_	_
5	from	from	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	east	east	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nmod	_	_
8	to	to	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
9	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
10	west	west	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nmod	_	_
11	should	should	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	12	aux	_	_
12	drink	drink	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	18	advcl	_	_
13	thereof	thereof	ADV	RB	_	12	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
15	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	18	nsubj	_	_
16	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	18	aux	_	_
17	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	18	advmod	_	_
18	fail	fail	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	18	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	18	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **drink** *a condition, not said to happen* | should | all people from the east to the west |  |  |  |  | thereof *property* | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **not** **fail** | would | west |  |  |  |  |  | vn succeed-74-3-1-1 «NP V»: agent=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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