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description: But all these things availed nothing, but rather turned to the damage of the King's men, of whom many were wounded and slain. Who acts: things, many. A sentence of «Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France» by Alfred John Church, Of What Befell At Montalban, with its dependency tree and
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# Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France, Of What Befell At Montalban, sentence 46

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But all these things availed nothing, but rather turned to the damage of the King's men, of whom many were wounded and slain.

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**Who acts:** things, many · **What happens:** avail, turn, be, damage · **To what, where:** nothing, damage, things, men

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This is a sentence of «Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France» by Alfred John Church, Of What Befell At Montalban. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (things, many), 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:pg75339:11:46
# text = But all these things availed nothing, but rather turned to the damage of the King's men, of whom many were wounded and slain.
1	But	but	CCONJ	CC	_	4	cc	_	_
2	all	all	DET	PDT	PronType=Tot	4	det:predet	_	_
3	these	this	DET	DT	Number=Plur|PronType=Dem	4	det	_	_
4	things	thing	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	0	root	_	_
5	availed	avail	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	4	acl	_	_
6	nothing	nothing	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Neg	5	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
8	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	10	cc	_	_
9	rather	rather	ADV	RB	_	10	advmod	_	_
10	turned	turn	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	parataxis	_	_
11	to	to	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
12	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
13	damage	damage	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obl	_	_
14	of	of	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
15	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
16	King	King	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	18	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	's	's	PART	POS	_	16	case	_	_
18	men	man	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	13	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	21	punct	_	_
20	of	of	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
21	whom	whom	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	10	obl	_	_
22	many	many	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	24	nsubj	_	_
23	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	24	cop	_	_
24	wounded	wounded	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	21	parataxis	_	_
25	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	26	cc	_	_
26	slain	slain	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	24	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **avail** | participle | all things *not said here* | nothing |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **turn** | past |  |  |  | the damage of the King's men |  | of all things | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V PP.trajectory»: agent=Theme to damage=Trajectory |
| 3 | **is** | past | many |  |  |  |  | wounded *property* | tree rules |
| 4 | **be** |  | many *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 6 | **damage** |  |  | the King's men |  |  |  |  | nom damage «event 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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