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title: Many sought to put him back, for he seemed to press on in an unmanne… — Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of F… · tree and pragmatics
description: Many sought to put him back, for he seemed to press on in an unmannerly fashion; but he was a stalwart man that gave as much as he took. Who acts: man, stalwart man. 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 60

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Many sought to put him back, for he seemed to press on in an unmannerly fashion; but he was a stalwart man that gave as much as he took.

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**Who acts:** man, stalwart man · **What happens:** seek, put back, seem, press on, be, give · **To what, where:** Many, man, unmannerly fashion, stalwart man, much

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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 (man, stalwart 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:pg75339:15:60
# text = Many sought to put him back, for he seemed to press on in an unmannerly fashion; but he was a stalwart man that gave as much as he took.
1	Many	many	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	2	nsubj:pass	_	_
2	sought	seek	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	4	csubj	_	_
3	to	to	PART	TO	_	4	mark	_	_
4	put	put	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
5	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	4	obj	_	_
6	back	back	ADV	RB	_	4	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
8	for	for	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
9	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	10	nsubj	_	_
10	seemed	seem	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	parataxis	_	_
11	to	to	PART	TO	_	12	mark	_	_
12	press	press	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	10	xcomp	_	_
13	on	on	ADP	RP	_	12	compound:prt	_	_
14	in	in	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
15	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
16	unmannerly	unmannerly	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	17	amod	_	_
17	fashion	fashion	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	24	punct	_	_
19	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	24	cc	_	_
20	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	24	nsubj	_	_
21	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	24	cop	_	_
22	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	24	det	_	_
23	stalwart	stalwart	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	compound	_	_
24	man	man	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	_
25	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	26	nsubj	_	_
26	gave	give	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	24	acl:relcl	_	_
27	as	as	ADV	RB	_	28	advmod	_	_
28	much	much	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	26	obj	_	_
29	as	as	SCONJ	IN	_	31	mark	_	_
30	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	31	nsubj	_	_
31	took	take	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	28	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
32	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **seek** | participle · passive |  | Many |  |  |  |  | vn hunt-35.1 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme |
| 2 | **put back** | to-infinitive |  |  | man |  |  |  | vn invest-13.5.4-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent he=Goal |
| 3 | **seem** | past | man |  |  |  |  |  | vn seem-109-1-1-1 «NP V S\_INF»: agent=Theme clause=Attribute |
| 4 | **press on** | to-infinitive | man *not said here* |  |  | a unmannerly fashion |  |  | vn push-12-1-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent |
| 5 | **is a** | past | man | a stalwart man |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 6 | **give** | past | a stalwart man | much |  |  |  |  | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent much=Theme |
| 7 | **take** | past | man |  |  |  |  |  | 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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