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description: This damsel whom I have with me shall, if it please you, be put with your daughter that she may learn the French tongue more perfectly." " Who acts: I, John. A sentence of «Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France» by Alfred John Church, How Huon Returned, His Errand Fulfilled, with its
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# Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France, How Huon Returned, His Errand Fulfilled, sentence 17

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This damsel whom I have with me shall, if it please you, be put with your daughter that she may learn the French tongue more perfectly." "

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**Who acts:** I, John · **What happens:** have, put, learn · **To what, where:** damsel, French tongue

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This is a sentence of «Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France» by Alfred John Church, How Huon Returned, His Errand Fulfilled. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (I, John), 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:pg75339:42:17
# text = This damsel whom I have with me shall, if it please you, be put with your daughter that she may learn the French tongue more perfectly." "
1	This	this	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	2	det	_	_
2	damsel	damsel	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	nsubj:pass	_	_
3	whom	whom	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	5	obj	_	_
4	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	5	nsubj	_	_
5	have	have	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	2	acl:relcl	_	_
6	with	with	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
7	me	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	5	obl	_	_
8	shall	shall	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	16	aux	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
10	if	if	SCONJ	IN	_	13	mark	_	_
11	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	13	nsubj	_	_
12	please	please	INTJ	UH	_	13	discourse	_	_
13	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	16	nsubj:pass	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
15	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	16	aux:pass	_	_
16	put	put	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
17	with	with	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
18	your	your	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	19	nmod:poss	_	_
19	daughter	daughter	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	obl	_	_
20	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	23	mark	_	_
21	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	23	nsubj	_	_
22	may	may	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	23	aux	_	_
23	learn	learn	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	16	advcl	_	_
24	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	26	det	_	_
25	French	French	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	26	amod	_	_
26	tongue	tongue	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	obj	_	_
27	more	more	ADV	RBR	Degree=Cmp	28	advmod	_	_
28	perfectly	perfectly	ADV	RB	_	23	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
29	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	16	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
30	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	16	punct	_	_
31	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	16	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **have** | present | I | this damsel |  |  |  | with me | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent whom=Patient |
| 2 | **put** | shall · passive |  | this damsel |  |  |  | with your daughter; you *nsubj:pass* | vn invest-13.5.4-1 «NP V PP»: subject=Goal |
| 3 | **learn** | may | John | the French tongue |  |  |  | perfectly *property* | vn learn-14-2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent tongue=Topic |

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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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