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title: She, fearing greatly for their lives, would have them take all her t… — Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of F… · tree and pragmatics
description: She, fearing greatly for their lives, would have them take all her treasure, and depart. Who acts: Bayard, horses. A sentence of «Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France» by Alfred John Church, How It Fared With the Brethren, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France, How It Fared With the Brethren, sentence 23

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She, fearing greatly for their lives, would have them take all her treasure, and depart.

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**Who acts:** Bayard, horses · **What happens:** fear, have, take, depart, treasure · **To what, where:** horses, treasure

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This is a sentence of «Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France» by Alfred John Church, How It Fared With the Brethren. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Bayard, horses), 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:pg75339:5:23
# text = She, fearing greatly for their lives, would have them take all her treasure, and depart.
1	She	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	3	punct	_	_
3	fearing	fear	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	0	root	_	_
4	greatly	greatly	ADV	RB	_	3	advmod	_	_
5	for	for	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
6	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	7	nmod:poss	_	_
7	lives	life	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
9	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	10	aux	_	_
10	have	have	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	3	parataxis	_	_
11	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	10	obj	_	_
12	take	take	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	10	xcomp	_	_
13	all	all	DET	PDT	PronType=Tot	15	det:predet	_	_
14	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	15	nmod:poss	_	_
15	treasure	treasure	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	_
17	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	18	cc	_	_
18	depart	depart	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	10	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **fear** | gerund | Bayard |  |  |  |  | for horses's lives; greatly *property* | vn admire-31.2-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer for life=Attribute |
| 2 | **have** | would |  | horses *= horse* |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **take** | infinitive | horses *= horse* *not said here* | Bayard's treasure |  |  |  |  | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent treasure=Theme |
| 4 | **depart** | infinitive |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn escape-51.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 5 | **treasure** |  | Bayard |  |  |  |  |  | nom treasure «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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