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title: My pardon you shall have," answered the Admiral, "if you will promis… — Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of F… · tree and pragmatics
description: My pardon you shall have," answered the Admiral, "if you will promise not to trespass against me hereafter, and will swear to be my man so long as you shall live." " Who acts: pardon, you, My. A sentence of «Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France» by Alfred John Church, How Huon Retur
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# Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France, How Huon Returned, His Errand Fulfilled, sentence 89

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My pardon you shall have," answered the Admiral, "if you will promise not to trespass against me hereafter, and will swear to be my man so long as you shall live." "

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**Who acts:** pardon, you, My · **What happens:** have, answer, promise, not trespass, swear, be · **To what, where:** Admiral, hereafter, man · **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 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 (pardon, 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:pg75339:42:89
# text = My pardon you shall have," answered the Admiral, "if you will promise not to trespass against me hereafter, and will swear to be my man so long as you shall live." "
1	My	my	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	2	nmod:poss	_	_
2	pardon	pardon	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	_
3	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	5	nsubj	_	_
4	shall	shall	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	5	aux	_	_
5	have	have	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	8	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	8	punct	_	_
8	answered	answer	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	parataxis	_	_
9	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
10	Admiral	admiral	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	19	punct	_	_
12	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	19	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	if	if	SCONJ	IN	_	16	mark	_	_
14	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	16	nsubj	_	_
15	will	will	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	16	aux	_	_
16	promise	promise	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	19	csubj	_	_
17	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	19	advmod	_	_
18	to	to	PART	TO	_	19	mark	_	_
19	trespass	trespass	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	8	conj	_	_
20	against	against	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
21	me	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	19	obl	_	_
22	hereafter	hereafter	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	26	punct	_	_
24	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	26	cc	_	_
25	will	will	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	26	aux	_	_
26	swear	swear	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	5	conj	_	_
27	to	to	PART	TO	_	30	mark	_	_
28	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	30	cop	_	_
29	my	my	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	30	nmod:poss	_	_
30	man	man	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	26	ccomp	_	_
31	so	so	ADV	RB	_	32	advmod	_	_
32	long	long	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	26	advmod	_	_
33	as	as	SCONJ	IN	_	36	mark	_	_
34	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	36	nsubj	_	_
35	shall	shall	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	36	aux	_	_
36	live	live	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	32	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
37	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
38	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	5	punct	_	_
39	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	5	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **have** | shall | My pardon |  |  |  |  | you *nsubj* | tree rules |
| 2 | **answer** *speech: assert* *in a quote* | past |  | the Admiral |  |  |  |  | vn reciprocate-112-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent admiral=Eventuality |
| 3 | **promise** *speech: promise* *a condition, not said to happen* | future | you |  |  |  |  |  | vn promise-37.13 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent |
| 4 | **not** **trespass** | to-infinitive |  | hereafter |  |  |  | against me | tree rules |
| 5 | **swear** | future | My pardon *not said here* |  |  |  |  | long *property* | vn conjecture-29.5 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent |
| 6 | **is a** | to-infinitive | My pardon *not said here* | my man |  |  |  | my *nmod:poss* | tree rules |
| 7 | **live** | shall | you |  |  |  |  |  | vn exist-47.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 8 | **pardon** |  | My |  |  |  |  |  | nom pardon «act 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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