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title: There lives no man so strong or so valiant but he may some time be v… — Morien: A Metrical Romance Rendered into English… · tree and pragmatics
description: There lives no man so strong or so valiant but he may some time be vanquished by force, or by fraud. Who acts: force. A sentence of «Morien: A Metrical Romance Rendered into English Prose from the Mediæval Dutch» by Jessie L. Weston, Opening, part 7, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of ev
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# Morien: A Metrical Romance Rendered into English Prose from the Mediæval Dutch, Opening, part 7, sentence 2

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There lives no man so strong or so valiant but he may some time be vanquished by force, or by fraud.

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**Who acts:** force · **What happens:** live, vanquish · **To what, where:** man

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This is a sentence of «Morien: A Metrical Romance Rendered into English Prose from the Mediæval Dutch» by Jessie L. Weston, Opening, part 7. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (force), 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:pg8447:7:2
# text = There lives no man so strong or so valiant but he may some time be vanquished by force, or by fraud.
1	There	there	PRON	EX	PronType=Dem	2	expl	_	_
2	lives	live	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	obj	_	_
5	so	so	ADV	RB	_	6	advmod	_	_
6	strong	strong	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	2	advcl	_	_
7	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	9	cc	_	_
8	so	so	ADV	RB	_	9	advmod	_	_
9	valiant	valiant	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	conj	_	_
10	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	16	cc	_	_
11	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	16	nsubj	_	_
12	may	may	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	16	aux	_	_
13	some	some	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	14	det	_	_
14	time	time	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	nsubj:pass	_	_
15	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	16	aux:pass	_	_
16	vanquished	vanquish	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	2	conj	_	_
17	by	by	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
18	force	force	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	22	punct	_	_
20	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	22	cc	_	_
21	by	by	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
22	fraud	fraud	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	parataxis	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **live** | present |  | no man |  | there |  | fraud *parataxis* | vn lodge-46 «NP V ADV»: agent=Theme man=Location |
| 2 | **vanquish** | may · passive | force | man |  |  |  |  | tree rules |

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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:** «Morien: A Metrical Romance Rendered into English Prose from the Mediæval Dutch» by Jessie L. Weston, Project Gutenberg book 8447 (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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