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description: And if these dare not come alone then let two others come together with them; and if the four be afraid let six come. Who acts: these, you, two others, four. A sentence of «Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France» by Alfred John Church, How Fierabras Defied King Charles, with its depen
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# Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France, How Fierabras Defied King Charles, sentence 13

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And if these dare not come alone then let two others come together with them; and if the four be afraid let six come.

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**Who acts:** these, you, two others, four, six · **What happens:** not dare, not come, let, come together, be, come · **To what, where:** six

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This is a sentence of «Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France» by Alfred John Church, How Fierabras Defied King Charles. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (these, you, two others, four), 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:pg75339:16:13
# text = And if these dare not come alone then let two others come together with them; and if the four be afraid let six come.
1	And	and	CCONJ	CC	_	9	cc	_	_
2	if	if	SCONJ	IN	_	4	mark	_	_
3	these	this	PRON	DT	Number=Plur|PronType=Dem	4	nsubj	_	_
4	dare	dare	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	9	advcl	_	_
5	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	4	advmod	_	_
6	come	come	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	4	xcomp	_	_
7	alone	alone	ADV	RB	_	6	advmod	_	_
8	then	then	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	9	advmod	_	_
9	let	let	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
10	two	two	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	11	nummod	_	_
11	others	other	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	12	nsubj	_	_
12	come	come	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	9	xcomp	_	_
13	together	together	ADV	RB	_	12	advmod	_	_
14	with	with	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
15	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	12	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	22	punct	_	_
17	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	22	cc	_	_
18	if	if	SCONJ	IN	_	22	mark	_	_
19	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	20	det	_	_
20	four	four	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	22	nsubj	_	_
21	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	22	cop	_	_
22	afraid	afraid	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	9	advcl	_	_
23	let	let	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	22	ccomp	_	_
24	six	six	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	23	obj	_	_
25	come	come	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	23	xcomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	9	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **not** **dare** *a condition, not said to happen* | present | these |  |  |  |  |  | vn urge-58.1-1 «NP V NP S\_ING»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 2 | **not** **come** | infinitive | these *not said here* |  |  |  |  | alone *property* | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 3 | **let** | imperative | you *not said here* |  |  |  | then |  | tree rules |
| 4 | **come together** | present | two others |  |  |  |  | with Oliver; together *property* | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 5 | **is** *a condition, not said to happen* | infinitive | the four |  |  |  |  | afraid *property* | tree rules |
| 6 | **let** | infinitive | the four *not said here* | six |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 7 | **come** | infinitive | six *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |

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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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