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title: We should of a certainty be hanged by the King, and it were better t… — Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of F… · tree and pragmatics
description: We should of a certainty be hanged by the King, and it were better to perish here than to die in so shameful a fashion." Who acts: 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 pragma
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# Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France, Of the Treachery of King John, sentence 98

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We should of a certainty be hanged by the King, and it were better to perish here than to die in so shameful a fashion."

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**Who acts:** King · **What happens:** hange, be, perish, die · **To what, where:** We

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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), 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:pg75339:7:98
# text = We should of a certainty be hanged by the King, and it were better to perish here than to die in so shameful a fashion."
1	We	we	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs	7	nsubj	_	_
2	should	should	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	7	aux	_	_
3	of	of	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
4	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	certainty	certainty	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obl	_	_
6	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	7	aux:pass	_	_
7	hanged	hange	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
8	by	by	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
9	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
10	King	King	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	7	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
12	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	15	cc	_	_
13	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	15	expl	_	_
14	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	15	cop	_	_
15	better	good	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	7	parataxis	_	_
16	to	to	PART	TO	_	17	mark	_	_
17	perish	perish	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	15	csubj	_	_
18	here	here	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	17	advmod	_	_
19	than	than	SCONJ	IN	_	21	mark	_	_
20	to	to	PART	TO	_	21	mark	_	_
21	die	die	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	17	xcomp	_	_
22	in	in	ADP	IN	_	26	case	_	_
23	so	so	ADV	RB	_	24	advmod	_	_
24	shameful	shameful	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	26	amod	_	_
25	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	26	det	_	_
26	fashion	fashion	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	7	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	7	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **hange** | should · passive | the King | We |  |  |  | of a certainty | tree rules |
| 2 | **is** | past |  |  |  |  |  | good *property* | tree rules |
| 3 | **perish** | to-infinitive |  |  |  | here |  |  | tree rules |
| 4 | **die** | to-infinitive |  |  |  |  |  | in a shameful fashion | vn calibratable\_cos-45.6.1 «NP.patient V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient in fashion=Attribute |

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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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