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title: Hear me, therefore: I do promise that if I can escape from this land… — Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of F… · tree and pragmatics
description: Hear me, therefore: I do promise that if I can escape from this land, I will be christened as soon as I come to any land where this may be done." Who acts: you, I. A sentence of «Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France» by Alfred John Church, How Huon, Having Slain a Giant, Came to Bab
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# Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France, How Huon, Having Slain a Giant, Came to Babylon, sentence 133

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Hear me, therefore: I do promise that if I can escape from this land, I will be christened as soon as I come to any land where this may be done."

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**Who acts:** you, I · **What happens:** hear, promise, escape, christen, come, do · **To what, where:** me, land, I, this

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This is a sentence of «Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France» by Alfred John Church, How Huon, Having Slain a Giant, Came to Babylon. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (you, 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:pg75339:41:133
# text = Hear me, therefore: I do promise that if I can escape from this land, I will be christened as soon as I come to any land where this may be done."
1	Hear	hear	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
2	me	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	1	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	4	punct	_	_
4	therefore	therefore	ADV	RB	_	1	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	8	punct	_	_
6	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	8	nsubj	_	_
7	do	do	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	8	aux	_	_
8	promise	promise	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	1	conj	_	_
9	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	13	mark	_	_
10	if	if	SCONJ	IN	_	13	mark	_	_
11	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	13	nsubj	_	_
12	can	can	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	13	aux	_	_
13	escape	escape	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	8	ccomp	_	_
14	from	from	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
15	this	this	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	16	det	_	_
16	land	land	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	21	punct	_	_
18	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	21	nsubj	_	_
19	will	will	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	21	aux	_	_
20	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	21	aux:pass	_	_
21	christened	christen	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	8	advcl	_	_
22	as	as	ADV	RB	_	23	advmod	_	_
23	soon	soon	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	21	advmod	_	_
24	as	as	SCONJ	IN	_	26	mark	_	_
25	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	26	nsubj	_	_
26	come	come	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	23	advcl	_	_
27	to	to	ADP	IN	_	29	case	_	_
28	any	any	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	29	det	_	_
29	land	land	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	26	obl	_	_
30	where	where	ADV	WRB	PronType=Rel	34	advmod	_	_
31	this	this	PRON	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	34	nsubj:pass	_	_
32	may	may	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	34	aux	_	_
33	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	34	aux:pass	_	_
34	done	do	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	29	acl:relcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
35	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	1	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
36	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	1	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **hear** | imperative | you *not said here* | me |  |  |  | therefore *property* | vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer i=Stimulus |
| 2 | **promise** *speech: promise* | present · do-support | I |  |  |  |  |  | vn promise-37.13 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 3 | **escape** *a condition, not said to happen* | can | I |  |  | this land |  |  | vn escape-51.1-1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme from land=Initial\_Location |
| 4 | **christen** | future · passive |  | I |  |  |  | soon *property* | vn dub-29.3.2 «NP V NP NP»: subject=Result |
| 5 | **come** | present | I |  |  | any land |  |  | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme to land=Initial\_Location |
| 6 | **do** | may · passive |  | this |  |  |  |  | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Eventuality |

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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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