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title: But if you slay me, you shall get from the deed no profit but much h… — Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of F… · tree and pragmatics
description: But if you slay me, you shall get from the deed no profit but much harm." Who acts: you. A sentence of «Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France» by Alfred John Church, More Deeds 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, More Deeds of Mawgis, sentence 20

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But if you slay me, you shall get from the deed no profit but much harm."

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**Who acts:** you · **What happens:** slay, get · **To what, where:** me, profit, deed

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This is a sentence of «Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France» by Alfred John Church, More Deeds 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), 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:pg75339:9:20
# text = But if you slay me, you shall get from the deed no profit but much harm."
1	But	but	CCONJ	CC	_	9	cc	_	_
2	if	if	SCONJ	IN	_	4	mark	_	_
3	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	4	nsubj	_	_
4	slay	slay	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	9	advcl	_	_
5	me	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	4	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	4	punct	_	_
7	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	9	nsubj	_	_
8	shall	shall	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	9	aux	_	_
9	get	get	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
10	from	from	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
11	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
12	deed	deed	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obl	_	_
13	no	no	DET	DT	PronType=Neg	14	det	_	_
14	profit	profit	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obj	_	_
15	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	17	cc	_	_
16	much	much	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	17	amod	_	_
17	harm	harm	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	9	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	9	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **slay** *a condition, not said to happen* | present | you | me |  |  |  |  | vn murder-42.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent i=Patient |
| 2 | **get** | shall | you | no profit but much harm |  | the deed |  |  | vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP PP.source»: agent=Agent profit=Theme from deed=Source |

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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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