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title: And now seeing that I have humbled myself in vain let us two settle… — Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of F… · tree and pragmatics
description: And now seeing that I have humbled myself in vain let us two settle this matter. Who acts: I, two. A sentence of «Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France» by Alfred John Church, Of the Craft of Mawgis, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France, Of the Craft of Mawgis, sentence 50

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And now seeing that I have humbled myself in vain let us two settle this matter.

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**Who acts:** I, two · **What happens:** see, humble, let, settle · **To what, where:** myself, vain, us, matter

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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 (I, two), 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:pg75339:8:50
# text = And now seeing that I have humbled myself in vain let us two settle this matter.
1	And	and	CCONJ	CC	_	3	cc	_	_
2	now	now	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	3	advmod	_	_
3	seeing	see	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	0	root	_	_
4	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	7	mark	_	_
5	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	7	nsubj	_	_
6	have	have	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	7	aux	_	_
7	humbled	humble	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	11	advcl	_	_
8	myself	myself	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs|Reflex=Yes	7	obj	_	_
9	in	in	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
10	vain	vain	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	obl	_	_
11	let	let	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	3	parataxis	_	_
12	us	we	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs	11	obj	_	_
13	two	two	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	14	nsubj	_	_
14	settle	settle	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	11	xcomp	_	_
15	this	this	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	16	det	_	_
16	matter	matter	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **see** | gerund |  |  |  |  | now |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer |
| 2 | **humble** | present · perfect | I | myself |  | vain |  |  | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus myself=Experiencer |
| 3 | **let** | infinitive |  | us |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 4 | **settle** | present | two | this matter |  |  |  |  | vn odge-46-1 «NP V ADV»: agent=Theme matter=Location |

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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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