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title: Mawgis," said Reynaud, "is not one that a man can give or take. — Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of F… · tree and pragmatics
description: Mawgis," said Reynaud, "is not one that a man can give or take. Who acts: Mawgis, Reynaud, man. A sentence of «Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France» by Alfred John Church, Of the Craft of Mawgis, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France, Of the Craft of Mawgis, sentence 49

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Mawgis," said Reynaud, "is not one that a man can give or take.

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**Who acts:** Mawgis, Reynaud, man · **What happens:** say, not be, give, take · **To what, where:** one · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of «Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France» by Alfred John Church, Of the Craft of Mawgis. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Mawgis, Reynaud, 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:pg75339:8:49
# text = Mawgis," said Reynaud, "is not one that a man can give or take.
1	Mawgis	Mawgis	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	1	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	1	punct	_	_
4	said	say	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	Reynaud	Reynaud	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	10	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	5	punct	_	_
7	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	5	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	10	cop	_	_
9	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	10	advmod	_	_
10	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	4	ccomp	_	_
11	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	15	obj	_	_
12	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
13	man	man	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	nsubj	_	_
14	can	can	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	15	aux	_	_
15	give	give	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	10	acl:relcl	_	_
16	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	17	cc	_	_
17	take	take	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	15	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **say** *speech: assert* *in a quote* | past | Mawgis |  |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **not** **is a** | present | Reynaud | one |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **give** | can | a man |  |  |  |  |  | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent that=Theme |
| 4 | **take** | infinitive | a man *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |

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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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