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title: There be many men better than I that come and go to Paris, and the K… — Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of F… · tree and pragmatics
description: There be many men better than I that come and go to Paris, and the King has no thought of them, whether it be morning or night. Who acts: many men, I, King, thought. A sentence of «Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France» by Alfred John Church, How Ralph Went to Court, with its depende
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# Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France, How Ralph Went to Court, sentence 17

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There be many men better than I that come and go to Paris, and the King has no thought of them, whether it be morning or night.

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**Who acts:** many men, I, King, thought · **What happens:** be, come, go, have, think · **To what, where:** Paris, thought, morning, jest

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This is a sentence of «Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France» by Alfred John Church, How Ralph Went to Court. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (many men, I, King, thought), 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:pg75339:15:17
# text = There be many men better than I that come and go to Paris, and the King has no thought of them, whether it be morning or night.
1	There	there	PRON	EX	PronType=Dem	5	expl	_	_
2	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	5	cop	_	_
3	many	many	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	amod	_	_
4	men	man	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	nsubj	_	_
5	better	good	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	0	root	_	_
6	than	than	SCONJ	IN	_	9	mark	_	_
7	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	9	nsubj	_	_
8	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	9	nsubj	_	_
9	come	come	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	5	advcl	_	_
10	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	11	cc	_	_
11	go	go	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	9	conj	_	_
12	to	to	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
13	Paris	Paris	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	11	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	_
15	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	18	cc	_	_
16	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
17	King	King	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	18	nsubj	_	_
18	has	have	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	5	conj	_	_
19	no	no	DET	DT	PronType=Neg	20	det	_	_
20	thought	thought	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	obj	_	_
21	of	of	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
22	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	20	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	27	punct	_	_
24	whether	whether	SCONJ	IN	_	27	mark	_	_
25	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	27	nsubj	_	_
26	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	27	cop	_	_
27	morning	morning	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	obl	_	_
28	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	29	cc	_	_
29	night	night	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	27	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
30	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | infinitive | many men |  |  | there |  | good *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **come** | present | I |  |  |  |  | that *nsubj* | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 3 | **go** | present | I *not said here* |  |  | Paris |  |  | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme to paris=Initial\_Location |
| 4 | **have** | present | the King | no thought of jest |  |  |  |  | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent thought=Patient |
| 5 | **is a** | infinitive | thought | morning or night |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 6 | **think** |  |  | jest |  |  |  |  | nom thought «cognition 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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