--- title: Hear, therefore, the message that he sends: 'Turn from your false go… — Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of F… · tree and pragmatics description: Hear, therefore, the message that he sends: 'Turn from your false gods; confess the faith of Christ; acknowledge that you hold your kingdom of me; and send me for token your royal sceptre. Who acts: Huon, you. 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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), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. **Mova's own parse.** This tree may be wrong. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = book:pg75339:41:88 # text = Hear, therefore, the message that he sends: 'Turn from your false gods; confess the faith of Christ; acknowledge that you hold your kingdom of me; and send me for token your royal sceptre. 1 Hear hear INTJ UH _ 6 discourse _ SpaceAfter=No 2 , , PUNCT , _ 1 punct _ _ 3 therefore therefore ADV RB _ 6 advmod _ SpaceAfter=No 4 , , PUNCT , _ 3 punct _ _ 5 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 6 det _ _ 6 message message NOUN NN Number=Sing 0 root _ _ 7 that that SCONJ IN _ 9 mark _ _ 8 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 9 nsubj _ _ 9 sends send VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 6 acl:relcl _ SpaceAfter=No 10 : : PUNCT : _ 12 punct _ _ 11 ' ' PUNCT `` _ 12 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 12 Turn turn VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 9 ccomp _ _ 13 from from ADP IN _ 16 case _ _ 14 your your PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 16 nmod:poss _ _ 15 false false ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 16 amod _ _ 16 gods god NOUN NNS Number=Plur 12 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 17 ; ; PUNCT : _ 18 punct _ _ 18 confess confess VERB VB Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin 12 parataxis _ _ 19 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 20 det _ _ 20 faith faith NOUN NN Number=Sing 18 obj _ _ 21 of of ADP IN _ 22 case _ _ 22 Christ Christ PROPN NNP Number=Sing 20 nmod _ SpaceAfter=No 23 ; ; PUNCT : _ 24 punct _ _ 24 acknowledge acknowledge VERB VB Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin 18 conj _ _ 25 that that SCONJ IN _ 27 mark _ _ 26 you you PRON PRP Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs 27 nsubj _ _ 27 hold hold VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 24 advcl _ _ 28 your your PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 29 nmod:poss _ _ 29 kingdom kingdom NOUN NN Number=Sing 27 obj _ _ 30 of of ADP IN _ 31 case _ _ 31 me I PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 29 nmod _ SpaceAfter=No 32 ; ; PUNCT : _ 34 punct _ _ 33 and and CCONJ CC _ 34 cc _ _ 34 send send VERB VB Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin 6 parataxis _ _ 35 me I PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 34 iobj _ _ 36 for for ADP IN _ 37 case _ _ 37 token token NOUN NN Number=Sing 34 obl _ _ 38 your your PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 40 nmod:poss _ _ 39 royal royal ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 40 amod _ _ 40 sceptre sceptre NOUN NN Number=Sing 34 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 41 . . PUNCT . _ 6 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **send** | present | Huon | the message *not said here* | | | | | tree rules | | 2 | **turn** | infinitive | Huon *not said here* | | | | | from your false gods | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V PP.trajectory»: agent=Theme from god=Trajectory | | 3 | **confess** | infinitive | | the faith of Christ | | | | | vn confess-37.10 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent faith=Topic | | 4 | **acknowledge** | infinitive | | | | | | | vn confess-37.10 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent | | 5 | **hold** | present | you | your kingdom of me | | | | | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent kingdom=Theme | | 6 | **send** | infinitive | | your royal sceptre | me | | | for token | vn send-11.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent i=Destination sceptre=Theme | 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. **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. - ← previous: [sentence 87](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg75339/41/87/) - next →: [sentence 89](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg75339/41/89/) - ↑ back to [How Huon, Having Slain a Giant, Came to Babylon](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg75339/41/)