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title: But the King answered, "Not so, we will first try them, whether they… — Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of F… · tree and pragmatics
description: But the King answered, "Not so, we will first try them, whether they will yield up the place peaceably." Who acts: King, we, barons. 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
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# Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France, Of the Treachery of King John, sentence 8

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But the King answered, "Not so, we will first try them, whether they will yield up the place peaceably."

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**Who acts:** King, we, barons · **What happens:** answer, try, yield up · **To what, where:** barons, place · **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, 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 (King, we, barons), 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:pg75339:7:8
# text = But the King answered, "Not so, we will first try them, whether they will yield up the place peaceably."
1	But	but	CCONJ	CC	_	4	cc	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	King	King	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
4	answered	answer	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
6	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	8	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	Not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	8	advmod	_	_
8	so	so	ADV	RB	_	13	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
10	we	we	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs	13	nsubj	_	_
11	will	will	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	13	aux	_	_
12	first	first	ADV	RB	NumForm=Word|NumType=Ord	13	advmod	_	_
13	try	try	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	4	ccomp	_	_
14	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	13	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	19	punct	_	_
16	whether	whether	SCONJ	IN	_	19	mark	_	_
17	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	19	nsubj	_	_
18	will	will	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	19	aux	_	_
19	yield	yield	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	13	conj	_	_
20	up	up	ADP	RP	_	19	compound:prt	_	_
21	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	22	det	_	_
22	place	place	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	obj	_	_
23	peaceably	peaceably	ADV	RB	_	19	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **answer** *speech: assert* | past | the King |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **try** *in a quote* | future | we | barons *= baron* |  |  |  | first *property* | vn try-61.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Eventuality |
| 3 | **yield up** *in a quote* | future | barons *= baron* | the place |  |  |  | peaceably *property* | vn future\_having-13.3 «NP V NP.theme (PP)»: agent=Agent place=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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