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title: Think you that I will do so base a thing as to yield up my own broth… — Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of F… · tree and pragmatics
description: Think you that I will do so base a thing as to yield up my own brother? Who acts: you, I. 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 46

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Think you that I will do so base a thing as to yield up my own brother?

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**Who acts:** you, I · **What happens:** think, do, yield up · **To what, where:** you, base, own brother

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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 (you, I), 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:pg75339:5:46
# text = Think you that I will do so base a thing as to yield up my own brother?
1	Think	think	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
2	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Person=2|PronType=Prs	1	obj	_	_
3	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	6	mark	_	_
4	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	6	nsubj	_	_
5	will	will	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	6	aux	_	_
6	do	do	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	1	ccomp	_	_
7	so	so	ADV	RB	_	6	advmod	_	_
8	base	base	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obl:unmarked	_	_
9	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
10	thing	thing	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obj	_	_
11	as	as	SCONJ	IN	_	13	mark	_	_
12	to	to	PART	TO	_	13	mark	_	_
13	yield	yield	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	1	advcl	_	_
14	up	up	ADP	RP	_	13	compound:prt	_	_
15	my	my	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	17	nmod:poss	_	_
16	own	own	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	17	amod	_	_
17	brother	brother	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	1	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **think** *speech: other* | imperative | you *not said here* | you |  |  |  |  | vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V NP ADJ»: agent=Agent you=Attribute clause=Theme |
| 2 | **do** | future | I | base |  |  |  | a thing *obj* | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent thing=Eventuality |
| 3 | **yield up** | to-infinitive | you *not said here* | my own brother |  |  |  |  | vn future\_having-13.3 «NP V NP.theme (PP)»: agent=Agent brother=Theme |

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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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