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title: If they can overcome me, then shall you and your land be free of you… — Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of F… · tree and pragmatics
description: If they can overcome me, then shall you and your land be free of your tax; but if I overcome them, then shall you pay the double." Who acts: men, you, I, your. A sentence of «Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France» by Alfred John Church, How Huon Returned, His Errand Fulfilled, with i
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# Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France, How Huon Returned, His Errand Fulfilled, sentence 50

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If they can overcome me, then shall you and your land be free of your tax; but if I overcome them, then shall you pay the double."

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**Who acts:** men, you, I, your · **What happens:** overcome, be, pay, tax · **To what, where:** me, men, double

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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 (men, you, I, your), 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:pg75339:42:50
# text = If they can overcome me, then shall you and your land be free of your tax; but if I overcome them, then shall you pay the double."
1	If	if	SCONJ	IN	_	4	mark	_	_
2	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	4	nsubj	_	_
3	can	can	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	4	aux	_	_
4	overcome	overcome	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
5	me	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	4	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
7	then	then	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	14	advmod	_	_
8	shall	shall	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	14	aux	_	_
9	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	14	nsubj	_	_
10	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	12	cc	_	_
11	your	your	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	12	nmod:poss	_	_
12	land	land	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	conj	_	_
13	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	14	cop	_	_
14	free	free	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	conj	_	_
15	of	of	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
16	your	your	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	17	nmod:poss	_	_
17	tax	tax	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	28	punct	_	_
19	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	28	cc	_	_
20	if	if	SCONJ	IN	_	22	mark	_	_
21	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	22	nsubj	_	_
22	overcome	overcome	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	28	advcl	_	_
23	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	22	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	22	punct	_	_
25	then	then	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	28	advmod	_	_
26	shall	shall	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	28	aux	_	_
27	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	28	nsubj	_	_
28	pay	pay	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	4	conj	_	_
29	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	30	det	_	_
30	double	double	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	28	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
31	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
32	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **overcome** | can | men *= man* | me |  |  |  |  | vn exceed-90 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot i=Theme |
| 2 | **is** | shall | you |  |  |  | then | of your tax; free *property* | tree rules |
| 3 | **overcome** *a condition, not said to happen* | present | I | men *= man* |  |  |  |  | vn exceed-90 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot they=Theme |
| 4 | **pay** | shall | you | the double |  |  | then |  | vn pay-68-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent double=Asset |
| 5 | **tax** |  | your |  |  |  |  |  | nom tax «possession 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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