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title: Cut me now the half of my shirt into strips and I will bind up my wo… — Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of F… · tree and pragmatics
description: Cut me now the half of my shirt into strips and I will bind up my wounds as best I may, and so make shift to help you against our enemies." Who acts: you, I, shift, my. A sentence of «Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France» by Alfred John Church, Of the Treachery of King John, with it
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# Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France, Of the Treachery of King John, sentence 101

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Cut me now the half of my shirt into strips and I will bind up my wounds as best I may, and so make shift to help you against our enemies."

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**Who acts:** you, I, shift, my · **What happens:** cut, bind up, make, help, wound · **To what, where:** half, me, strips, wounds, shift, you

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This is a sentence of «Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France» by Alfred John Church, Of the Treachery of King John. 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, shift, 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:pg75339:7:101
# text = Cut me now the half of my shirt into strips and I will bind up my wounds as best I may, and so make shift to help you against our enemies."
1	Cut	cut	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
2	me	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	1	iobj	_	_
3	now	now	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	1	advmod	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	half	half	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing|NumForm=Word|NumType=Frac	1	obj	_	_
6	of	of	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
7	my	my	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	8	nmod:poss	_	_
8	shirt	shirt	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nmod	_	_
9	into	into	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
10	strips	strip	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	1	obl	_	_
11	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	14	cc	_	_
12	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	14	nsubj	_	_
13	will	will	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	14	aux	_	_
14	bind	bind	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	1	conj	_	_
15	up	up	ADP	RP	_	14	compound:prt	_	_
16	my	my	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	17	nmod:poss	_	_
17	wounds	wound	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	14	obj	_	_
18	as	as	ADV	RB	_	19	advmod	_	_
19	best	good	ADJ	JJS	Degree=Sup	14	parataxis	_	_
20	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	21	nsubj	_	_
21	may	may	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	19	ccomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	25	punct	_	_
23	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	25	cc	_	_
24	so	so	ADV	RB	_	25	advmod	_	_
25	make	make	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	1	conj	_	_
26	shift	shift	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	obj	_	_
27	to	to	PART	TO	_	28	mark	_	_
28	help	help	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	25	xcomp	_	_
29	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Person=2|PronType=Prs	28	obj	_	_
30	against	against	ADP	IN	_	32	case	_	_
31	our	our	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	32	nmod:poss	_	_
32	enemies	enemy	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	28	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
33	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	1	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
34	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	1	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **cut** | imperative | you *not said here* | the half of my shirt | me | strips | now |  | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP NP»: agent=Asset i=Beneficiary half=Product |
| 2 | **bind up** | future | I | my wounds |  |  |  |  | vn shake-22.3-2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent wound=Patient |
| 3 | **make** | infinitive | you *not said here* | shift |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 4 | **help** | to-infinitive | shift *not said here* |  | you |  |  | against our enemies | vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent you=Beneficiary |
| 5 | **wound** |  | my |  |  |  |  |  | nom wound «state 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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