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title: We men of France shall have no small trouble therefrom. — Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of F… · tree and pragmatics
description: We men of France shall have no small trouble therefrom. Who acts: We, men. A sentence of «Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France» by Alfred John Church, How the Heathen and the French Prepared For Battle, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France, How the Heathen and the French Prepared For Battle, sentence 3

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We men of France shall have no small trouble therefrom.

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**Who acts:** We, men · **What happens:** man, have · **To what, where:** small trouble

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This is a sentence of «Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France» by Alfred John Church, How the Heathen and the French Prepared For Battle. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (We, men), 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:pg75339:30:3
# text = We men of France shall have no small trouble therefrom.
1	We	we	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs	2	nsubj	_	_
2	men	man	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	nsubj	_	_
3	of	of	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
4	France	France	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	nmod	_	_
5	shall	shall	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	6	aux	_	_
6	have	have	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
7	no	no	DET	DT	PronType=Neg	9	det	_	_
8	small	small	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	9	amod	_	_
9	trouble	trouble	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obj	_	_
10	therefrom	therefrom	ADV	RB	_	6	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **man** |  | We |  |  |  |  | of France | tree rules |
| 2 | **have** | shall | men | no small trouble |  |  |  | therefrom *property* | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent trouble=Patient |

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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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