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description: "I owe you no thanks for the gift," said Huon, "for the ring I can take at my pleasure, when you shall have been slain." Who acts: Huon, you, my. 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, with its dep
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# Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France, How Huon, Having Slain a Giant, Came to Babylon, sentence 49

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"I owe you no thanks for the gift," said Huon, "for the ring I can take at my pleasure, when you shall have been slain."

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**Who acts:** Huon, you, my · **What happens:** owe, say, take, be, please · **To what, where:** you, pleasure, slain · **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 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 (Huon, you, my), 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:pg75339:41:49
# text = "I owe you no thanks for the gift," said Huon, "for the ring I can take at my pleasure, when you shall have been slain."
1	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	3	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
3	owe	owe	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	12	ccomp	_	_
4	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Person=2|PronType=Prs	3	obj	_	_
5	no	no	DET	DT	PronType=Neg	6	det	_	_
6	thanks	thanks	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	_
7	for	for	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
9	gift	gift	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	3	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	3	punct	_	_
12	said	say	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
13	Huon	Huon	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	12	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
15	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	13	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	for	for	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
17	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
18	ring	ring	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	obl	_	_
19	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	21	nsubj	_	_
20	can	can	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	21	aux	_	_
21	take	take	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	12	ccomp	_	_
22	at	at	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	_
23	my	my	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	24	nmod:poss	_	_
24	pleasure	pleasure	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	31	punct	_	_
26	when	when	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	31	advmod	_	_
27	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	31	nsubj	_	_
28	shall	shall	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	31	aux	_	_
29	have	have	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	31	aux	_	_
30	been	be	AUX	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	31	cop	_	_
31	slain	slain	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
32	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	21	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
33	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	21	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **owe** *in a quote* | present | Huon | you |  |  |  | no thanks for the gift *obl* | vn future\_having-13.3 «NP V NP.theme (PP)»: agent=Agent you=Theme |
| 2 | **say** *speech: assert* | past | Huon |  |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 3 | **take** *in a quote* | can | Huon |  |  | my pleasure and slain |  | for the ring | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP PP.beneficiary»: agent=Agent for ring=Beneficiary |
| 4 | **is a** *in a quote* | shall · perfect | you | slain |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 5 | **please** *in a quote* |  | my |  |  |  |  |  | nom pleasure «feeling 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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