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# Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France, Of the Craft of Mawgis, sentence 116

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Then he turned to Ogier the Dane and said, "Now, if you would prove me your love, hang this fellow." "

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**Who acts:** man, you, your · **What happens:** turn, say, prove, hang, love · **To what, where:** Ogier, man, fellow · **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 Craft of Mawgis. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (man, you, your), 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:pg75339:8:116
# text = Then he turned to Ogier the Dane and said, "Now, if you would prove me your love, hang this fellow." "
1	Then	then	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	3	advmod	_	_
2	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
3	turned	turn	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	to	to	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
5	Ogier	Ogier	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	Dane	Dane	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	5	appos	_	_
8	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	9	cc	_	_
9	said	say	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
11	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	12	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	Now	now	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	9	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	_
14	if	if	SCONJ	IN	_	17	mark	_	_
15	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	17	nsubj	_	_
16	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	17	aux	_	_
17	prove	prove	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	9	parataxis	_	_
18	me	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	17	obj	_	_
19	your	your	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	20	nmod:poss	_	_
20	love	love	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	22	punct	_	_
22	hang	hang	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	17	parataxis	_	_
23	this	this	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	24	det	_	_
24	fellow	fellow	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	22	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	22	punct	_	_
27	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	17	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **turn** | past | man |  | Ogier |  | then |  | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V PP.result»: agent=Theme to ogier=Result |
| 2 | **say** *speech: assert* | past | man *not said here* |  |  |  | now |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 3 | **prove** *a condition, not said to happen, in a quote* | would | you | man |  |  |  | your love *obj* | vn declare-29.4-1-1 «NP V NP ADJ»: agent=Agent i=Theme love=Attribute |
| 4 | **hang** *in a quote* | infinitive |  | this fellow |  |  |  |  | vn poison-42.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent fellow=Patient |
| 5 | **love** *in a quote* |  | your |  |  |  |  |  | nom love «feeling 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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