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title: Shall I tarry till I am slain before I ask for help?" and putting th… — Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of F… · tree and pragmatics
description: Shall I tarry till I am slain before I ask for help?" and putting the horn to his lips he blew it with all his might. Who acts: I, Provost. 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 
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# Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France, Of the End of the False Duke Macaire, sentence 88

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Shall I tarry till I am slain before I ask for help?" and putting the horn to his lips he blew it with all his might.

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**Who acts:** I, Provost · **What happens:** tarry, be, ask, put, blow · **To what, where:** horn · **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, 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 (I, Provost), 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:pg75339:40:88
# text = Shall I tarry till I am slain before I ask for help?" and putting the horn to his lips he blew it with all his might.
1	Shall	shall	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	3	aux	_	_
2	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
3	tarry	tarry	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
4	till	till	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
5	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	7	nsubj	_	_
6	am	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	7	cop	_	_
7	slain	slain	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	_
8	before	before	SCONJ	IN	_	10	mark	_	_
9	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	10	nsubj	_	_
10	ask	ask	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	3	advcl	_	_
11	for	for	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
12	help	help	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	3	punct	_	_
15	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	16	cc	_	_
16	putting	put	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	3	conj	_	_
17	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
18	horn	horn	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	obj	_	_
19	to	to	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
20	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	21	nmod:poss	_	_
21	lips	lip	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	16	obl	_	_
22	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	23	nsubj	_	_
23	blew	blow	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	21	acl:relcl	_	_
24	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	23	obj	_	_
25	with	with	SCONJ	IN	_	28	mark	_	_
26	all	all	DET	PDT	PronType=Tot	28	det:predet	_	_
27	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	28	nmod:poss	_	_
28	might	might	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	23	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
29	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **tarry** | shall | I |  |  |  |  |  | vn linger-53.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **is** | present | I |  |  |  | till slain |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **ask** *speech: ask* | present | I |  |  |  |  | for help | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 4 | **put** *in a quote* | gerund | I *not said here* | the horn |  |  |  | to Provost's lips | vn invest-13.5.4-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent horn=Goal |
| 5 | **blow** *in a quote* | past | Provost | horn |  |  |  |  | vn split-23.2 «NP V NP apart»: agent=Agent it=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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