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title: But then, as one that takes courage to speak, he said, "Sir, you may… — Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of F… · tree and pragmatics
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# Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France, Of the Craft of Mawgis, sentence 70

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But then, as one that takes courage to speak, he said, "Sir, you may see that I am a poor man that has more need of health than of compassing treason.

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**Who acts:** one, pilgrim, Sir, poor man, more need · **What happens:** take, speak, say, see, be, have · **To what, where:** courage, poor man, more need, treason, health · **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 (one, pilgrim, Sir, poor 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:pg75339:8:70
# text = But then, as one that takes courage to speak, he said, "Sir, you may see that I am a poor man that has more need of health than of compassing treason.
1	But	but	CCONJ	CC	_	7	cc	_	_
2	then	then	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	5	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	5	punct	_	_
4	as	as	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
5	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	7	nsubj	_	_
6	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	7	nsubj	_	_
7	takes	take	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	13	advcl	_	_
8	courage	courage	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obj	_	_
9	to	to	PART	TO	_	10	mark	_	_
10	speak	speak	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	8	acl	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	7	punct	_	_
12	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	13	nsubj	_	_
13	said	say	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
15	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	16	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	Sir	Sir	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	20	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
18	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	20	nsubj	_	_
19	may	may	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	20	aux	_	_
20	see	see	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	13	ccomp	_	_
21	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	26	mark	_	_
22	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	26	nsubj	_	_
23	am	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	26	cop	_	_
24	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	26	det	_	_
25	poor	poor	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	26	amod	_	_
26	man	man	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	ccomp	_	_
27	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	28	nsubj	_	_
28	has	have	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	26	acl:relcl	_	_
29	more	more	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	30	amod	_	_
30	need	need	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	28	obj	_	_
31	of	of	ADP	IN	_	32	case	_	_
32	health	health	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	30	nmod	_	_
33	than	than	SCONJ	IN	_	35	mark	_	_
34	of	of	SCONJ	IN	_	35	mark	_	_
35	compassing	compass	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	30	acl	_	_
36	treason	treason	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	35	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
37	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	13	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **take** | present | one | courage |  |  |  | that *nsubj* | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent courage=Theme |
| 2 | **speak** *speech: other* | to-infinitive | one *not said here* | courage *not said here* |  |  |  |  | vn talk-37.5 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **say** *speech: assert* | past | pilgrim |  |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 4 | **see** *in a quote* | may | Sir |  |  |  |  | you *nsubj* | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer |
| 5 | **is a** *in a quote* | present | pilgrim | a poor man |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 6 | **have** *in a quote* | present | a poor man | more need of health |  |  |  |  | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent need=Patient |
| 7 | **compass** *in a quote* | gerund | more need of health *not said here* | treason |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 8 | **need** *in a quote* |  |  | health |  |  |  |  | nom need «state transitive»: of=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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