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title: For as soon as you shall cast yourselves at his feet, he will pardon… — Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of F… · tree and pragmatics
description: For as soon as you shall cast yourselves at his feet, he will pardon you and give you again your lands." Who acts: you, King. A sentence of «Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France» by Alfred John Church, Of the Treachery of King John, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of eve
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# Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France, Of the Treachery of King John, sentence 59

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For as soon as you shall cast yourselves at his feet, he will pardon you and give you again your lands."

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**Who acts:** you, King · **What happens:** cast, pardon, give · **To what, where:** yourselves, feet, you, lands

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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, King), 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:pg75339:7:59
# text = For as soon as you shall cast yourselves at his feet, he will pardon you and give you again your lands."
1	For	for	ADP	IN	_	3	case	_	_
2	as	as	ADV	RB	_	3	advmod	_	_
3	soon	soon	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	15	obl	_	_
4	as	as	SCONJ	IN	_	7	mark	_	_
5	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	7	nsubj	_	_
6	shall	shall	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	7	aux	_	_
7	cast	cast	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	3	advcl	_	_
8	yourselves	yourselves	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Reflex=Yes	7	obj	_	_
9	at	at	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
10	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	11	nmod:poss	_	_
11	feet	foot	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	7	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	3	punct	_	_
13	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	15	nsubj	_	_
14	will	will	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	15	aux	_	_
15	pardon	pardon	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
16	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Person=2|PronType=Prs	15	obj	_	_
17	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	18	cc	_	_
18	give	give	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	15	conj	_	_
19	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Person=2|PronType=Prs	18	iobj	_	_
20	again	again	ADV	RB	_	18	advmod	_	_
21	your	your	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	22	nmod:poss	_	_
22	lands	land	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	18	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	15	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	15	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **cast** | shall | you | yourselves |  | King's feet |  |  | vn throw-17.1 «NP V NP PP.destinations»: agent=Agent yourselves=Theme at foot=Destination |
| 2 | **pardon** | future | King | you |  |  |  |  | vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Agent you=Theme for soon=Attribute |
| 3 | **give** | infinitive | King *not said here* | your lands | you |  | again |  | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent you=Recipient land=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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