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title: Now if I can but escape hence this day, nothing in the whole world s… — Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of F… · tree and pragmatics
description: Now if I can but escape hence this day, nothing in the whole world shall bring me hither again." Who acts: nothing. A sentence of «Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France» by Alfred John Church, How Ralph Went to Court, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France, How Ralph Went to Court, sentence 72

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Now if I can but escape hence this day, nothing in the whole world shall bring me hither again."

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**Who acts:** nothing · **What happens:** escape, bring · **To what, where:** me

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This is a sentence of «Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France» by Alfred John Church, How Ralph Went to Court. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (nothing), 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:pg75339:15:72
# text = Now if I can but escape hence this day, nothing in the whole world shall bring me hither again."
1	Now	now	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	6	advmod	_	_
2	if	if	SCONJ	IN	_	4	mark	_	_
3	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	4	nsubj	_	_
4	can	can	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	6	aux	_	_
5	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	6	cc	_	_
6	escape	escape	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
7	hence	hence	ADV	RB	_	9	advmod	_	_
8	this	this	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	9	det	_	_
9	day	day	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
11	nothing	nothing	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Neg	17	nsubj	_	_
12	in	in	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
13	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
14	whole	whole	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	15	amod	_	_
15	world	world	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	nmod	_	_
16	shall	shall	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	17	aux	_	_
17	bring	bring	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	6	conj	_	_
18	me	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	17	obj	_	_
19	hither	hither	ADV	RB	_	17	advmod	_	_
20	again	again	ADV	RB	_	17	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	6	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **escape** | can |  |  |  |  | now; day |  | vn escape-51.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **bring** | shall | nothing in the whole world |  | me |  | again | hither *property* | vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP ADVP»: agent=Instrument i=Destination |

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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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