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title: There is no man here that will dare take this message. — Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of F… · tree and pragmatics
description: There is no man here that will dare take this message. Who acts: man. A sentence of «Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France» by Alfred John Church, Of Richard of Normandy, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France, Of Richard of Normandy, sentence 5

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There is no man here that will dare take this message.

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**Who acts:** man · **What happens:** be, dare, take · **To what, where:** message

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This is a sentence of «Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France» by Alfred John Church, Of Richard of Normandy. 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:pg75339:24:5
# text = There is no man here that will dare take this message.
1	There	there	PRON	EX	PronType=Dem	2	expl	_	_
2	is	be	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	no	no	DET	DT	PronType=Neg	4	det	_	_
4	man	man	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	nsubj	_	_
5	here	here	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	4	advmod	_	_
6	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	8	nsubj	_	_
7	will	will	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	8	aux	_	_
8	dare	dare	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	4	acl:relcl	_	_
9	take	take	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	8	xcomp	_	_
10	this	this	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	11	det	_	_
11	message	message	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	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 | **be** | present | no man |  |  | there |  |  | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **dare** | future | no man |  |  |  |  |  | vn urge-58.1-1 «NP V NP S\_ING»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 3 | **take** | infinitive | no man *not said here* | this message |  |  |  |  | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent message=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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