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title: If you take these men alive the King will give you great thanks ther… — Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of F… · tree and pragmatics
description: If you take these men alive the King will give you great thanks therefor, and you will have Bayard for your own, and the war will be ended." Who acts: you, King. A sentence of «Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France» by Alfred John Church, Of the Craft of Mawgis, with its dependency t
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# Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France, Of the Craft of Mawgis, sentence 34

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If you take these men alive the King will give you great thanks therefor, and you will have Bayard for your own, and the war will be ended."

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**Who acts:** you, King · **What happens:** take, give, have, end · **To what, where:** men, great thanks therefor, you, Bayard, war

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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 (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:pg75339:8:34
# text = If you take these men alive the King will give you great thanks therefor, and you will have Bayard for your own, and the war will be ended."
1	If	if	SCONJ	IN	_	3	mark	_	_
2	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
3	take	take	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	10	advcl	_	_
4	these	this	DET	DT	Number=Plur|PronType=Dem	5	det	_	_
5	men	man	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	obj	_	_
6	alive	alive	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	xcomp	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	King	King	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	10	nsubj	_	_
9	will	will	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	10	aux	_	_
10	give	give	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
11	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Person=2|PronType=Prs	10	iobj	_	_
12	great	great	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	14	amod	_	_
13	thanks	thanks	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	compound	_	_
14	therefor	therefor	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	19	punct	_	_
16	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	19	cc	_	_
17	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	19	nsubj	_	_
18	will	will	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	19	aux	_	_
19	have	have	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	10	conj	_	_
20	Bayard	Bayard	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	19	obj	_	_
21	for	for	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
22	your	your	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	23	nmod:poss	_	_
23	own	own	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	19	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	30	punct	_	_
25	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	30	cc	_	_
26	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	27	det	_	_
27	war	war	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	30	nsubj	_	_
28	will	will	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	30	aux	_	_
29	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	30	aux:pass	_	_
30	ended	end	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	10	parataxis	_	SpaceAfter=No
31	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	10	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
32	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	10	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **take** *a condition, not said to happen* | present | you |  | this men |  |  | alive *property* | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP ADVP»: agent=Instrument man=Destination |
| 2 | **give** | future | the King | great thanks therefor | you |  |  |  | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent you=Recipient therefor=Theme |
| 3 | **have** | future | you | Bayard |  |  |  | for your own | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent bayard=Patient |
| 4 | **end** | future · passive |  | the war |  |  |  |  | vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP V NP.eventuality»: subject=Eventuality |

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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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