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title: I promise," and kneeling down in the sight of all, he swore he would… — Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of F… · tree and pragmatics
description: I promise," and kneeling down in the sight of all, he swore he would be the Admiral's man. Who acts: I, pardon. A sentence of «Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France» by Alfred John Church, How Huon Returned, His Errand Fulfilled, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every c
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# Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France, How Huon Returned, His Errand Fulfilled, sentence 90

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I promise," and kneeling down in the sight of all, he swore he would be the Admiral's man.

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**Who acts:** I, pardon · **What happens:** promise, kneel down, swear, be · **To what, where:** sight, 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 (I, pardon), 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:pg75339:42:90
# text = I promise," and kneeling down in the sight of all, he swore he would be the Admiral's man.
1	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	2	nsubj	_	_
2	promise	promise	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	2	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	2	punct	_	_
5	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	6	cc	_	_
6	kneeling	kneel	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	2	conj	_	_
7	down	down	ADV	RB	_	6	advmod	_	_
8	in	in	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
9	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
10	sight	sight	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obl	_	_
11	of	of	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
12	all	all	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	10	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
14	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	15	nsubj	_	_
15	swore	swear	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	2	parataxis	_	_
16	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	22	nsubj	_	_
17	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	22	aux	_	_
18	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	22	cop	_	_
19	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	20	det	_	_
20	Admiral	Admiral	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	22	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	's	's	PART	POS	_	20	case	_	_
22	man	man	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	ccomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **promise** *speech: promise* | present | I |  |  |  |  |  | vn promise-37.13 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 2 | **kneel down** *in a quote* | gerund | I *not said here* |  |  | the sight of all |  | down *property* | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent in sight=Location |
| 3 | **swear** *in a quote* | past | pardon |  |  |  |  |  | vn conjecture-29.5 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent |
| 4 | **is a** *in a quote* | would | pardon | the Admiral's man |  |  |  | the Admiral *nmod:poss* | tree rules |

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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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