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title: Verily, there is no man so old but that he will get hot in battle." — Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of F… · tree and pragmatics
description: Verily, there is no man so old but that he will get hot in battle." Who acts: man. A sentence of «Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France» by Alfred John Church, How Peace Was Made, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France, How Peace Was Made, sentence 32

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Verily, there is no man so old but that he will get hot in battle."

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**Who acts:** man · **What happens:** be, get

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This is a sentence of «Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France» by Alfred John Church, How Peace Was Made. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (man), 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:pg75339:12:32
# text = Verily, there is no man so old but that he will get hot in battle."
1	Verily	verily	ADV	RB	_	4	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	1	punct	_	_
3	there	there	PRON	EX	PronType=Dem	4	expl	_	_
4	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	8	cop	_	_
5	no	no	DET	DT	PronType=Neg	6	det	_	_
6	man	man	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	nsubj	_	_
7	so	so	ADV	RB	_	8	advmod	_	_
8	old	old	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
9	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	13	cc	_	_
10	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	13	mark	_	_
11	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	13	nsubj	_	_
12	will	will	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	13	aux	_	_
13	get	get	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	8	conj	_	_
14	hot	hot	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	13	xcomp	_	_
15	in	in	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
16	battle	battle	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	8	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	8	punct	_	_
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## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | present | no man |  |  |  |  | old *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **get** | future | man |  |  |  |  | hot *property* | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Experiencer |

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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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